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Gitelman, Lisa
February 2nd, 2007 under Uncategorized

Associate Professor and Director of the Program in Media Studies, Catholic University in Washington, DC.
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Lisa Gitelman
Lisa Gitelman holds a doctorate in English and Comp. Lit. from Columbia and is a former documentary editor with the Thomas A. Edison Papers at Rutgers University. Her work focuses on the histories of nonprint media as points of access to culturally and historically specific popular ontologies of printedness, reading and writing. She has studied shorthand alphabets, typewriters, phonographs, cinema, and the early Internet. Her publications include Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines: Representing Technology in the Edison Era (Stanford 1999) and a co-edited collection, New Media, 1740-1915 (MIT 2002). Her new book, Always Already New: Media, History, and the Data of Culture, is forthcoming in 2006.


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I'm not persuaded that information or capital, and these two things see each other when they look in the mirror, routes around us; it just feels that way. All day long, it passes through those of us in the abstract class (and this may be what's meant by the content-free term "middle class"; no wonder it promises its own universality). It is more or less what we do all the time, while we are doing other things, "While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along." This is the truth of globalization, or of our participation in the world-system. And yet we have little experience of it, of the feeling-which-is-not-one of being a node in the great circulation. This is the fact which I take to be at the missing heart of late modernity: a degree of abstraction so great that, among other things, the abstract becomes representational.
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