Neef Sonja, van Dijck José, Ketelaar Eric (eds.) Sign Here! Handwriting in the Age of New Media

Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2006. — 288 p. — ISBN10: 9053568166; ISBN13: 978-9053568163 — (Transformations in Art and Culture. Book 1)Will handwriting survive the evolution of digital media? Sign Here explores the changing role of manual writing in a world of e-mail, text messaging, and other digital technology. In a series of fascinating essays, media scholars examine the changing concepts of originality, authenticity, and uniqueness—both culturally and legally—as digital media continue to rapidly expand.Sign Here! Handwriting in the Age of Technical Reproduction: Introduction. José van Dijck and Sonja NeefAuthentic CopiesAuthentic Events: The Diaries of Anne Frank and the Alleged Diaries of Adolf Hitler. Sonja Neef
The Authority of Drawing: Hand, Authenticity, and Authorship. Michael Wetzel
Authenticity and Objectivity in Scientific Communication: Implications of Digital Media. John Mackenzie Owen
Authenticity in Bits and Bytes. Hannelore DekeyserRe-Mediating HandwritingSignature Identity Content: Handwriting in an Age of Digital Remediation. Richard Grusin
Writing the Self: Of Diaries and Weblogs. José van Dijck
Hands on the Document: Arnold Dreyblatt’s T Archive. Arnold Dreyblatt and Jeffrey Wallen
Faithfully Submitted: The Logic of the Signature in Marcel Proust’s A la recherche. Mieke Bal
(Hand)writing Film History: Saul Bass Draws Martin Scorsese in a Title Sequence and Writes his Name Underneath. Rembert HüserHandwriting and (Dis-)EmbodimentWriting on Archiving Machines. Eric Ketelaar
Blood Samples and Fingerprint Files: Blood as Artificial Matter, Artistic Material, and Means of the Signature. Thomas Fechner-Smarsly
Writing Over the Body, Writing With the Body: On Shirin Neshat’s Women of Allah Series. Begüm Özden Firat
Perfor/m/ative Writing: Tattoo, Mark, Signature. Sonja NeefIllustration Acknowledgement