Johanna Drucker

Jun 13, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Johanna Drucker

JOHANNA DRUCKER University of California, Los Angeles This is a revised version of the lecture I delivered at New York University's Remarque Institute on 23 February 2024 as the ninth History and Theory Lecture. Readers interested in the fuller exposition of these ideas, sources, and intellectual traditions should consult my recent book, Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022). Search for more papers by this author

Jul 28, 2023 | independent.ie | Johanna Drucker

Johanna Drucker: Why Musk has rebranded Twitter with the mysterious X‘I like the letter X,” Elon Musk posted, shortly after he renamed and rebranded Twitter. “X will become the most valuable brand on Earth.” X? Can you imagine Musk picking J for the job? Or H?

Jul 27, 2023 | washingtonpost.com | Johanna Drucker

CommentJohanna Drucker is Breslauer professor and distinguished professor emerita in information studies at UCLA. She is the author of “Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present.”“I like the letter X,” Elon Musk posted, shortly after he renamed and rebranded Twitter. “X will become the most valuable brand on Earth.” X? Can you imagine Musk picking J for the job? Or H? There would be puzzlement, as there is now, and not much else. But X also creates a certain frisson.

Jan 21, 2023 | languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu | Candida Moss |Silvia Ferrara |Todd Portnowitz |Johanna Drucker

BBC (11/27/22) article by Hugh Schofield:"Charles V: French scientists decode 500-year-old letter"A coded letter signed in 1547 by the most powerful ruler in Europe has been cracked by French scientists, revealing that he lived in fear of an assassination attempt by an Italian mercenary.