Signature
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-5334-5 (ISBN)
Why do we sign our names? How can a squiggle both enslave and liberate? Signatures often require a witness—as if the scrawl itself is not enough. What other kinds of beliefs and longings justify our signing practices?
Signature addresses these questions as it roams from a roundtable on the Greek island of Syros, to a scene of handwriting analysis conducted in an English pub, from a wedding in Moscow, where guests sign the bride’s body, to a San Franciscan tattoo parlor interested in arcane forms.
The signature’s history encompasses ancient handprints on cave walls, autograph hunters, the branding of slaves, metaphysical poetry, medical malpractice, hip-hop lyrics, legal challenges to electronic signatures, ice cores harvested from Greenland, and tales of forgery and autopens.
Part cultural chronicle, part travelogue, Signature pursues the identifying marks made by people, animals, and planetary forces, revealing the stories and fantasies hidden in their signatures.
Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
Hunter Dukes is Lecturer of English Literature at Tampere University, Finland, and a former Research Fellow at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge, UK.
1. The Dotted Line
2. S for Signature
a. Real Fake
b. On the Shores of Syros
3. Autograph Collecting
a. “To Adam, from Big Daddy”
b. A Victorian State of Mind
c. Reading Character
d. Criminal Signatures
e. Autograph Fever
4. The Origins of Signature
a. To Astuvansalmi
b. There is Nothing Funny about Elk
c. The Self, Extended
d. Cave Signatures
e. Seals and Signets
5. Signing the Body
a. I Am You
b. Erotic Inscription
c. Autographic Skin
6 Digital Signatures, Signaling Digits
a. Signing Machines
i. Typewriter
ii. Film
iii. Gramophone
b. Fingerprinting
c. Electronic Signatures
7 Paw Prints & Ice Cores
a. Doctrine of Signatures
b. Animal Tracks
c. Epigenetic Signatures
d. Ice Cores
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
| Erscheinungsdatum | 02.01.2020 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Object Lessons |
| Zusatzinfo | 8 bw illus |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 121 x 165 mm |
| Gewicht | 176 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5013-5334-9 / 1501353349 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5013-5334-5 / 9781501353345 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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