The Indexical Imagination*
*Documentary Aesthetics and the Literary History of Information Culture
  • About this Site
  • Acknowledgements
  • Bibliography
  • Chapters
    • Briet’s Antelope and Benjamin’s Arcades Project:
      The Work of the Collector in an Era of Documentation
    • The Feeling of Footnotes in Reade’s Hard Cash
    • The Index and the Mechanical Mind:
      Encyclopedic Tensions in the CYC Knowledge-Base
    • “Attend for the future to those indexes or hands”:
      The Two Indexes of Sir Charles Grandison and Iterative Reading

Chapters

Briet’s Antelope and Benjamin’s Arcades Project:The Work of the Collector in an Era of Documentation

The Feeling of Footnotes in Reade’s Hard Cash

The Index and the Mechanical Mind: Encyclopedic Tensions in the CYC Knowledge-Base

“Attend for the future to those indexes or hands”:The Two Indexes of Sir Charles Grandison and Iterative Reading

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