{"id":8229,"date":"2012-06-28T08:09:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T08:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/paul-dutton-the-plastic-typewriter-1993\/"},"modified":"2024-01-30T23:52:53","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T22:52:53","slug":"paul-dutton-the-plastic-typewriter-1993","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/?p=8229","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 100%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-8229 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/text-mode.org\/?attachment_id=8230'><img width=\"74\" height=\"96\" src=\"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/tumblr_m527398XPE1rpiyaso2_1280.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/text-mode.org\/?attachment_id=8231'><img width=\"74\" height=\"96\" src=\"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/tumblr_m527398XPE1rpiyaso1_r1_1280.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/text-mode.org\/?attachment_id=8232'><img width=\"75\" height=\"96\" src=\"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/tumblr_m527398XPE1rpiyaso3_1280.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/writing.upenn.edu\/epc\/ezines\/treehome\/tree04\/dutt_pla.html\">The Plastic Typewriter<\/a> book by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_Dutton\">Paul Dutton<\/a>, 1993.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Although Paul Dutton finished this series of prints\/smudges made from a disassembled plastic typewriter in 1977, this is the first publication of the entire work. It&#8217;s a lovely sequence of visual pieces: letters pressed on broken type, lines drawn in (presumably through typewriter ribbon), smudges, fragments of rock lyrics, ribbon rubbings, fingerprints, typed text, in short, a greatly enhanced set of textual elements. Given the replacement of the typewriter by the word processor, there&#8217;s a flavor of nostalgia, or perhaps metaphor (in the destruction of the typewriter) in this piece that may not have been originally considered.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/writing.upenn.edu\/epc\/ezines\/treehome\/tree04\/dutt_pla.html\">Andrew Russ<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Post updated in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Plastic Typewriter book by Paul Dutton, 1993. Although Paul Dutton finished this series of prints\/smudges made from a disassembled plastic typewriter in 1977, this is the first publication of the entire work. It&#8217;s a lovely sequence of visual pieces: letters pressed on broken type, lines drawn in (presumably through typewriter ribbon), smudges, fragments [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[439],"tags":[1405,828,435,56,57],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8229"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22638,"href":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8229\/revisions\/22638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}