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Gutenberg Galaxy Revis(it)ed: A Brief History of Combinatory, Hypertextual and Collaborative Literature from the Baroque Period to the Present (Q2449)

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scholarly work by Jörgen Schäfer
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Gutenberg Galaxy Revis(it)ed: A Brief History of Combinatory, Hypertextual and Collaborative Literature from the Baroque Period to the Present
scholarly work by Jörgen Schäfer

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    The Ars magna sciendi, Athanasius Kircher’s adaptation and elaboration of Lull’s Ars magna, illustrates a common tendency of the Baroque era: In addition to books, alternative Aufschreibesysteme (“systems of notation”) (Kittler) appear that are storage media of traditional knowledge and generators of new knowledge at the same time (134). (English)
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