Files: Law and Media Technology (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)

by Geoffrey Winthrop - Young (Translator), Cornelia Vismann (Author)

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  Paperback
  2008

  $29.19

  The reign of paper files would seem to be over once files are reduced to the status of icons on computer screens, but Vismann's book, which examines the impact of the file on Western institutions throughout history, shows how the creation of order in medieval and early modern administrations makes its returns in computer architecture.