Relays: literature as an epoch of the postal system
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Abstract
List of tables and figures Introduction 1. An epoch of the postal system Part I. The Logistics of the Poet's Dream: 2. On time (registered letterI) 3. Gellert's coup: folding the private letter 4. Post day in Wahlheim 5. Set the controls for the heart of the night 6. Postage 7. Goethe's postal empire 8. The timbre of a calling (attunement) 9. The logistics of the poet's dream: kleist Part II. On The Way To New Empires 1840-1900: 10. System time (registered letter II) 11. Postage one penny: Rowland Hill's post office reform 12. The standards of writing 13. Hill/Babbage/Bentham: the mechanical alliance of 1827 14. Mail in 1855: a misuse of love letters 15. The worl postal system, or the end of the world 16. The postcard 17. The telegraph: land and sea 18. The virgin machine Part III. Mail Beyond Human Communication: 19. Typewriter and carbon paper 20. The poet's matter in extremis 21. Mail, or the impossibility of writting letters 22. In the presence of noise Notes Bibliography.