The
alphabet and the algorithm
Form, standards, and authorship in times of variable media
Carpo, Mario.
creator
ebrary, Inc
text
bibliography
Electronic books.
mau
Cambridge, Mass
MIT Press
2011
monographic
eng
xi, 169 p.
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.
Mario Carpo.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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