Long Live Aporia!
Hal Foster: William Gaddis, 24 July 2003
The Rush for Second Place: Essays and Occasional Writings
by William Gaddis, edited by Joseph Tabbi.
Penguin, 182 pp., $14, October 2002,0 14 200238 0 Show More
by William Gaddis, edited by Joseph Tabbi.
Penguin, 182 pp., $14, October 2002,
“... from the pieces of this apparatus, restored at the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers, that Joseph Jacquard devised his punch-card loom in 1804, which, thirty more years down the road of modernisation, inspired Charles Babbage in his Analytical Engine, the great predecessor of the contemporary computer. For the dying man, the player piano is a lost term ... ”
