Publisher: Editions Empire, Author: Camille Pageard and Simon Renaud, ISBN: 9791095991441, Format: Softcover, 210 x 290 mm, 68pp.
This double issue examines the origins of the automation and mechanisation of translation and writing.
Issue 47, Machines, Accents, and Affects, begins with a machine built by Dr René Marage in the late 19th century. Along with the history of graphic inscription of the voice, a history of our attraction and repulsion for technical objects is revealed.
Issue 48, Electric Letters, looks at digital computing’s impact on writing by delving into its origins: the treatment of binary code. This transformation emerges in telegraphs and the advent of electricity in the 19th century. Our writings, initially addressed and interpreted by humans, are completed by a code that the machine can manipulate.