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Timothie Bright and the Origins of Early Modern Shorthand: Melancholy, Medicines, Information Soul

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Timothie Bright and the Origins of Early Modern Shorthand: Melancholy, Medicines, Information Soul
Timothie Bright and the Origins of Early Modern Shorthand: Melancholy, Medicines, Information Soul

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Timothie Bright and the Origins of Early Modern Shorthand: Melancholy, Medicines, Information Soul

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Bright’s account of melancholy involves a cybernetic phenomenology of the human. Essentially, we are psyches (souls or minds). We are sealed off from our bodies, operating them as automata across an interface. Psychological presence, for Bright, is illusion and pathology. Engrossing performances or representations therefore bring great danger, and so does the doctrine of predestination—less for its content than its typical delivery. Painful preaching was indispensable in sixteenth-century English Protestantism. But it falls foul of Bright’s proscriptions. These are followed by his publication of the first known system for verbatim shorthand notation since antiquity, its technique heavily inflected toward a vocabulary of the pulpit. The passionate, oral performance of the inspired preacher receives an unprecedented textual preservative—and prophylactic. Bright’s technology of information serves his phenomenology of alienation. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of the early modern period, the tradition of melancholy, and the history of information—as theory, and technology.

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