Letters, Postcards, Email Technologies of Presence

by Milne, Esther

• ISBN13: 9780203862155
• ISBN10: 0203862155
• Edition: 1st
• Copyright: 2009-12-03
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

In this original study, Milne moves between close readings of letters, postcards and emails, and investigations of the material, technological infrastructures of these forms, to answer the question: How does presence function as an aesthetic and rhetorical strategy within networked communication practices?

Table of Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction

"The Conscious Presence of a Central Intellect": British Postal History

"The simple transcripts of natural feeling": Signifiers of Presence in Epistolary Practice

"The ghosts of all my impertinent letters": Presence in Crisis

"The Self-conscious air of the reproduced": Postcard History

"A photo of the ship that I am now on": Signifiers of Presence, Intimacy and Privacy in Postcard Correspondence

A Brief History of Electronic Mail

"In my sickness": Constructing Presence on the Cybermind Discussion Group

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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