Red Door #28 - The TYPEWRITTEN issue

connections, writing on typewriters to
disconnect completely, and of course
art, as you can see long these pages.
The resurgence of typewriting, Polt
explains, is probably due to the extensive
expansion of digital communication
in our lives, so that these typewriters
aren’t just part of the subculture
but currently playing an active part in
writing our stories.
Typewriters history is connected to
many aspects of our own society,
from war to feminism, as some of the
first opportunities for women to enter
the workforce were due to the need
of secretaries in offices and government
places. Polt explains that he isn’t
just collecting typewriters because of
their aesthetic beauty. He is interested
in the process of cleaning them, fixing
them, using them, understanding
them mechanically, looking into the
history of the people who made them.
This episode of the Red Transmissions
Podcasts can be heard on the
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providers.
Special thanks to Richard Polt once
again for this interview, as well as for
the typewriter photos in this magazine
and the beautiful illustrations included
in the poetry section of this publication,
which were originally created
for the Typewriter Revolution, but having
not made the cut, have found their
new home within these pages.
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