Ted Striphas: The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control

摘要

Although the title of Ted Striphas' latest monograph uses a temporal metaphor, theoft-heralded—and much dreaded—End of the Printed Book is little more than arhetorical device in The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture fromConsumerism to Control. The printed book, Striphas argues, is as vital a mediumin the twenty-first century as it was in the twentieth and persists as a key site atwhich social, cultural, political, and legal struggles affecting ordinary peoples'ordinary lives are routinely enacted. The sorts of struggles in question, however, areundergoing change—we might even, in fact, be right this second caught in thetransition between two different socio-cultural realities—and he labels this period oftransformation, "the late age of print," a coinage borrowed from Jay David Bolter.