In his introductory essay to TCR 2-50, guest editor Andrew Klobucar writes: “Given the arguments presented throughout this issue, the reader will no doubt agree that new information technologies, along with the variety of formats they inspire, have indeed prompted a “crisis” in writing, in the sense that such developments must invoke a formative and not merely utilitarian effect on knowledge and how it is communicated. Perhaps this complex cybernetic intermingling of machine and mind appears clearest in Darren Wershler-Henry’s contribution, an inspired exploration of the typewriter as a device uniquely representative of the historical and epistemological convergence of the dicté and typist into a single dictation apparatus. Wershler-Henry’s typewriter as authoring machine invokes an especially dynamic image of all media technology, one forever fraught with the tension of being part language document, part language system – part artifice, part intelligence.”
Darren Wershler-Henry is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. His most recent books are The Iron Whim: A Fragmented History of Typewriting, and apostrophe (with Bill Kennedy).
Darren Wershler-Henry / Technologies of Dictation: Typewriting and the Toronto Research Group
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