Title Statements
- Full title :The alphabet and the algorithm / Mario Carpo.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2011.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):MIT Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge, Mass
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2011.
The Physical Object
- Description:xi, 169 p.
Edition Identifiers
- oclc:on1200878954
- LC Classification:NA2750
- Dewey Decimal:720.1
Table of Contents
Introduction -- Variable, identical, differential. Architecture and the identical copy : timelines -- Allography and notations -- Authorship -- The early modern pursuit of identical reproduction -- Geometry, algorism, and the notational bottleneck -- The fall of the identicals -- The reversal of the Albertian paradigm -- The rise. Alberti and identical copies -- Going digital -- Windows -- ID pictures and the power of facsimiles -- Alberti's imitation game and its technological failure -- The invention of the Albertian paradigm -- The fall. Form -- Standard -- Agency -- Epilogue. Split agency.
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