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Manifest Maszynopisania
Thanks to Adam Piskorek for this Polish translation of the Typewriter Manifesto, typed on an Olivetti Valentine.Adam writes: I was moved by the California Typewriter movie, and Typewriter Revolution...
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Heidegger's typewriter
My article on Martin Heidegger's Urania-Piccola was just published in Gatherings, the journal of the Heidegger Circle. It is available at this link.
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Phony typewriters hit a literary low
Yes, that's a "Govrland" phony on the cover of a Stephen King novel: Sie (She), the German translation of Misery. Credit goes to Rodja Pavlik for discovering this travesty. As he says, this thing isn't...
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Typewriters created by artificial intelligence
I have gotten fascinated by AI art, which has taken major strides forward in 2022. These images were created by NightCafé using the Stable algorithm, in response to the prompt "typewriter" combined...
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Free thoughts: Fall edition
Fall in Cincinnati can be very beautiful.My friend and I took the opportunity to type "free thoughts" for the Xavier campus again. This time, some students joined in.Here are some of my thoughts.
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Unnecessarily Beautiful Spaces for Young Minds on Fire
Unnecessarily Beautiful Spaces for Young Minds on Fire (McSweeneys, 2019) is an inspiring tour of places such as SF’s 826 Valencia which foster youth writing—including Cincinnati’s own WordPlay Cincy....
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TabType: the “out-of-typewriter correction material"
You learn something new about typewriters every day—even after 28 years of collecting.A woman emailed me about this "out-of-typewriter correction material" from 1972. It's "revolutionary"! The...
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Typing a story for Radio FreeWrite
Radio FreeWrite is a simple and brilliant concept for a podcast: a group of friends write flash fiction based on a new prompt in each episode, and listeners are invited to do the same. Then we hear the...
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La skribmaŝina insurekcio: The Esperanto typewriter insurgency
The latest version of The Typewriter Insurgency Manifesto is in Esperanto. Dankegon, Toni E! La Revolucio estos tajpiligita!This seems like a good moment to republish Norbert Schwarz's article "Is...
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A spatiotemporal typewriter: Enki Bilal's Script-Walker
I first ran across the Script-Walker in 2016, on a visit to London's Science Museum.Artist Enki Bilal introduced the device in 1986 in his graphic novel La femme piège (which has been translated both...
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Dancing, typing, and convenience
The Rilkean Zoo, Episode 111: ConvenienceFrom The Typewriter Revolution:
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December 2022 typewriter safari
It's time for another typewriter safari! As usual, these machines were spotted in a local antique mall. (To get the holiday feeling, imagine Bing Crosby crooning overhead and holiday shoppers pushing...
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A sonnet about typewriters — by a surprising author
In days of old, when pens were all the rage,And scribes would labor o'er their written page, A new machine came forth to take their place, A marvel of the age, the typewriter's grace. With keys that...
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Logan Lane and the Luddite Club
Meet a young leader of the insurgency.A recent New York Times story introduces the Luddite Club, founded by teenager Logan Lane of Brooklyn. She decided to turn off her iPhone during the pandemic,...
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A ribbon hack for a 1929 Underwood portable
Tonight I worked on a four-bank Underwood portable from 1929. It's a fussy machine, with some awkward functions and tiny pieces that can easily get lost if you remove the platen and paper tray.Right...
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