{"title":"Lex Fugit: On Acts of Legibility","authors":"Isabel Capeloa Gil","doi":"10.1163/9789004376175_008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004376175_008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":102620,"journal":{"name":"Legibility in the Age of Signs and Machines","volume":"108 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126074314","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ledgers and Legibility: A Conversation on the Significance of Noise within Digital Colonial Archives","authors":"K. Dirckinck-Holmfeld, P. Hesselberth","doi":"10.1163/9789004376175_017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004376175_017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":102620,"journal":{"name":"Legibility in the Age of Signs and Machines","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128383223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Between Nostalgia and Utopia: A Conversation on the Legibility of Film Archives","authors":"P. Verstraten, G. Fossati","doi":"10.1163/9789004376175_014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004376175_014","url":null,"abstract":"How do the choices made by film archivists and restorers impact the way films are presented? How do digital copies of films relate to the “original” film copies? What are the pros and cons of celluloid in this era of digitization, from the perspective of film restoration and preservation? Interviewed by Peter Verstraten, Giovanna Fossati discusses the legibility of analog films, with their relatively long life expectancy versus the legibility of digital formats with their rapid obsolescence rate. The authors also discuss the flexibility of digital technology in approximating the look of obsolete film techniques (e.g. color in early cinema), the importance of keeping the analog film tradition alive, and the need for a long-term preservation strategy for digital films.","PeriodicalId":102620,"journal":{"name":"Legibility in the Age of Signs and Machines","volume":"1128 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124700556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Connectivity, Legibility and the Mass Image","authors":"S. Cubitt","doi":"10.1163/9789004376175_012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004376175_012","url":null,"abstract":"Network connectivity should surely by now have already arrived at the global village. Instead, our only universal is the commodity form. To the extent that the actually existing global formation is universal, it does not constitute a culture. But if legibility is a hallmark of culture, the implication is that global connectivity is illegible. The humanities alone are equipped to identify what is truly illegible, a task we perform precisely by reading, using every technique we have, eclectically, to find an entry into the opacity of events. This essay argues that connectivity has produced a universal mass image, and asks whether it is possible to restore legibility to it, and if so in what forms.","PeriodicalId":102620,"journal":{"name":"Legibility in the Age of Signs and Machines","volume":"124 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116379516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Legible Affects: The Melodramatic Imagination in Painting","authors":"E. Alphen","doi":"10.1163/9789004376175_003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004376175_003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":102620,"journal":{"name":"Legibility in the Age of Signs and Machines","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125416415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Encountering the Law: Machinic and Theatrical Space in Criminal Prosecution","authors":"Tessa de Zeeuw","doi":"10.1163/9789004376175_009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004376175_009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":102620,"journal":{"name":"Legibility in the Age of Signs and Machines","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126390888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Machine Language and the Illegibility of the Zwischen","authors":"D. Gauthier","doi":"10.1163/9789004376175_011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004376175_011","url":null,"abstract":"The term “machine language” is a bizarre construct; it suggests that a machine can be addressed directly through language and, in turn, that words or codes can be viewed as the source of the machine’s physical actions. In this way, the term works to conceal the notion of execution, that is, the physical work of the machine itself. In this chapter, David Gauthier posits that this perceived relation between language and execution, problematically symptomatic in New Media and Software Studies, leads to contentious conceptions of computing. Rather than upholding a disjunction between computational legibility – machine as language – and illegibility – machine as black box executing written programs, Gauthier puts forth a consideration of the Zwischen: the critical interim state during which codes lose their determinacy while the machine acts.","PeriodicalId":102620,"journal":{"name":"Legibility in the Age of Signs and Machines","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128412318","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Representational Assemblages: Forms, Concerns, Affects","authors":"Frederik Tygstrup","doi":"10.1163/9789004376175_018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004376175_018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":102620,"journal":{"name":"Legibility in the Age of Signs and Machines","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122809472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Legibility of Legislation in Kafka’s “In the Penal Colony”","authors":"Siebe Bluijs","doi":"10.1163/9789004376175_007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004376175_007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":102620,"journal":{"name":"Legibility in the Age of Signs and Machines","volume":"130 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129965238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Too Much to Read? Negotiating (Il)legibility between Close and Distant Reading","authors":"Inge van de Ven","doi":"10.1163/9789004376175_013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004376175_013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":102620,"journal":{"name":"Legibility in the Age of Signs and Machines","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114339132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}