Discourse networks 1800/1900

TL;DR: Spaces of the Ear: Literature, Media, and the Science of Sound as discussed by the authors examines the concomitant emergence of new forms of acoustical embodiment across the diverse fields of literature and science in the historical period beginning with the Franco-Prussian War and ending with the introduction of early information theory in the late 1920s.

TL;DR: The term post-digital has been applied across a broad range of disciplines, including literary studies, to describe an era in which digital media and technologies have become "post-digital".

TL;DR: In his memoir Ex-Prodigy, the MIT professor and cybernetics researcher Norbert Wiener once wrote: “I longed to be a naturalist as other boys long desire to be policemen and locomotive engineers. I was only dimly aware of the way in which the age of the naturalist and explorer was running out, leaving the mere tasks of gleaning to the next generation as discussed by the authors.