Turn on, tune in, drop out: On the attentional privacy of 17th century Dutch letter-readers

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10 novembre 2021

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emilstephensen, « Turn on, tune in, drop out: On the attentional privacy of 17th century Dutch letter-readers », Centre for Privacy Studies, ID : 10670/1.68vqwk


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When Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, visited Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum in 2016, he claimed to have found an iPhone in one of the paintings - more specifically in A Letter Delivered in a Voorhuis (1670) by Pieter de Hooch. This 17th century representation of a woman receiving a letter is one among many representations of epistolarity in Dutch Golden Age art – and there might be something to the comparison between smartphones of today and Dutch letters of the early modern period. The vaguely absent b...

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