Traces of the Real: Autographomania and the Cult of the Signers in Nineteenth-Century America

Lauer, Josh

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“…In addition to blackmailers a new crowd of celebrity stalkers also emerged. Like ‘autograph fiends’ before them (Lauer, 2007), ‘camera fiends’ sought to possess the material trace of a living person, which might be gotten through cajolery, deceit, or theft. A thriving trade in studio photographs of statesmen, politicians, literary figures, and actresses existed before 1880, but the portable camera upped the ante by capturing candid images for popular consumption.…”

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Surveillance history and the history of new media: An evidential paradigm

Lauer

2011

New Media & Society

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New media are often addressed within the growing field of surveillance studies, but technologies predating the late twentieth century are rarely considered. This essay challenges conventional histories of modern surveillance by highlighting the cultural impact of three ‘old’ new media: photography, the phonograph, and the telephone. Drawing upon the work of historian Carlo Ginzburg (1990) , I argue that new media produce new evidence and that late nineteenth-century media contributed to an emergent ‘evidential paradigm’. From this perspective, the intensification of contemporary surveillance can be seen as an elaboration of late nineteenth-century new media and the proliferation of evidence-producing communication technologies.

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Surveillance history and the history of new media: An evidential paradigm

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2011

New Media & Society

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Keeping, Saving, and Remembering: Manuel Doroteo Carvajal’s Trompe l’Oeil Autograph Drawings as Elements of Rhetorical Visual Strategy during the Colombian Civil Wars of the 1850s and 1860s

Hanabergh¹

2021

Source: Notes in the History of Art

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The Work of Friendship in Nineteenth-Century American Friendship Album Verses

Zebuhr¹

2015

American Literature

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Based on archival research done at the Library Company of Philadelphia, this essay offers an interpretation of original and popular verses that appear in nineteenth-century friendship albums. It argues that the verses engage a long-standing conversation about the nature of friendship in the Western tradition: where the feeling of friendship comes from, the nature of the feeling itself, and how we ought to practice it. Situating the verses in relation to literary and philosophical writings on friendship including those of Socrates, Michel de Montaigne, Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Hölderlin, Rainer Maria Rilke, Maurice Blanchot, and Simone de Beauvoir achieves two main objectives. First, it aims to give the verses, which have largely been ignored by scholarship, their due as literary texts; and second, reveals that this popular practice, though not itself explicitly philosophical, makes a serious contribution to the Western philosophical tradition's consideration of the concept of friendship.

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Traces of the Real: Autographomania and the Cult of the Signers in Nineteenth-Century America

Cited by 6 publications

References 9 publications

Surveillance history and the history of new media: An evidential paradigm

Surveillance history and the history of new media: An evidential paradigm

Keeping, Saving, and Remembering: Manuel Doroteo Carvajal’s Trompe l’Oeil Autograph Drawings as Elements of Rhetorical Visual Strategy during the Colombian Civil Wars of the 1850s and 1860s

The Work of Friendship in Nineteenth-Century American Friendship Album Verses

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