{"id":741,"date":"2005-01-22T13:54:21","date_gmt":"2005-01-22T17:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=741"},"modified":"2005-01-22T13:54:21","modified_gmt":"2005-01-22T17:54:21","slug":"you-no-touch-it-atwoods-book-signing-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=741","title":{"rendered":"You No Touch It: Atwood&#8217;s Book Signing Device"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Margaret Atwood has come up with a device for remotely signing books to save her the trouble of early flights and mini-bar food according to stories  like, <a title=\"Guardian Unlimited Books | News | Online answer to writer's angst\" href=\"http:\/\/books.guardian.co.uk\/news\/articles\/0,6109,1385928,00.html\"> Online answer to writer&#8217;s angst<\/a>, (The Guardian, Charlotte Higgins, Jan. 8, 2005.)<br \/>\nThe company she has founded to develop this device is called <a title=\"What is Unotchit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unotchit.com\/what-is-unotchit.html\">Unotchit<\/a> (U No Tch It &#8211; get it?) While having a video conference with an author followed by some personal message (spell checked, of course) faxed to me might be OK, I don&#8217;t see how this will substitute for book-signing which is about presence &#8211; being close to the authority. Hell, a book is mediated authority, why would I want more of the same instead of a moment of real presence?<br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s interesting is how gentle bloggers and journalists are being with Atwood. It&#8217;s a stupid idea that says a lot about Atwood that none of us want to consider because we like her writing so much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Margaret Atwood has come up with a device for remotely signing books to save her the trouble of early flights and mini-bar food according to stories like, Online answer to writer&#8217;s angst, (The Guardian, Charlotte Higgins, Jan. 8, 2005.) The company she has founded to develop this device is called Unotchit (U No Tch It &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=741\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">You No Touch It: Atwood&#8217;s Book Signing Device<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}