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Faire – To look at things #47 & 48 – Mechanical Translations
Faire – To look at things #47 & 48 – Mechanical Translations
Author | Camille Pageard and Simon Renaud |
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Publisher | Editions Empire |
ISBN | 9791095991441 |
Idea Code | 24761 |
This double issue examines the origins of the automation and mechanisation of translation and writing. Issue 47, “Machines, Accents, and Affects,” begins with a machine built by Dr René Marage in the late 19th century. Along with the history of graphic inscription of the voice, a history of our attraction and repulsion to technical objects is revealed. Issue 48, “Electric Letters,” looks at digital computing’s impact on writing by delving into its origins: the treatment of binary code. This transformation emerges in telegraphs and the advent of electricity in the 19th century. Our writings, initially addressed and interpreted by humans, are completed by a code that the machine can manipulate.
68 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 29 cm, pb, French/English |
Editions Empire