Includes bibliographical references and index.

Legible affects: the melodramatic imagination in painting / Ernst van Alphen -- Overreading: intentions, mistakes and lies / Colin Davis -- Freud's conquest of the dreamscape: legibility and power in Freud's "Specimen dream" / Seth Rogoff -- Illegible desires: James Purdy's resistance to sexual identity / Looi van Kessel -- The legibility of legislation in Kafka's "In the penal colony" / Siebe Bluijs -- Lex Fugit: on acts of legibility / Isabel Capeloa Gil -- Encountering the law: machinic and theatrical space in criminal prosecution / Tessa de Zeeuw -- Ok, computer? Understanding cybernetic personhood / Yasco Horsman -- Machine-language and the illegibility of the Zwischen / David Gauthier -- Connectivity, legibility and the mass image / Sean Cubitt -- Too much to read? Negotiating (il)legibility between close and distant reading / Inge van de Ven -- Between nostalgia and utopia: a conversation on the legibility of film archives / Peter Verstraten and Giovanna Fossati -- Intersecting frames of legibility in Conversion de Piritu (1690): a remodeling of paratexts in the digital setting / Roxana Sarion -- "That the section 'weapons' had to be plentiful is evident for Aceh": the readability of colonial conquest in Dutch ethnographic exhibitions / Anke Bosma -- Ledgers and legibility: a conversation on the significance of noise within digital colonial archives / Katrine Dirckinck-Holmfeld and Pepita Hesselberth -- Representational assemblages: reading culture in the twenty-first century / Frederik Tygstrup.

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