[EVENT] “Type, Paper, Glass, and Screws: Reading Surfaces and the Materialities of Communication.” by Jonathan Senchyne
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Date and Time: Monday March 12th, 2018 at 12:15PM
Location: Bard Graduate Center
The surfaces we read are meant to disappear behind the content they bear. But what, and who, is available to readers who pay attention to the material dimensions of the devices we read? Whether an eighteenth-century newspaper or a twenty-first century iPhone, the surfaces from which we read are present to us, and they put our bodies in relation to others. In this talk, Senchyne reads the print work of the eighteenth-century enslaved printer Primus Fowle (1700–1791) and the poetry of Foxconn laborer Xu Lizhi (1990–2014) and argues that they use non-alphabetic elements of texts like broken type or loose screws to orient readers to the many kinds of people and kinds of work that mediate texts across time, space, and archives.
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