WELCOME TO THE TYPEWRITER REVOLUTION
Equip yourself with these books and join the insurgency against the all-digital mindset.
The Typewriter Revolution
Craving your first typewriter? Curious about the creative possibilities? Want to join the movement?
THE TYPEWRITER REVOLUTION is your field guide to the 21st-century typewritten world.
evertype
The narrator of EVERTYPE has wrenched himself loose from everything he’d become. Now he’s retreated to a forgotten town, armed only with a bike and a twentieth-century writing machine. Does he stand a chance of escaping the surveillance, terror, disease, and demagoguery of our times?
the classic typewriter page
Online since 1995, this site has become a center for the love of typewriters and their history. Find user manuals, photos of famous writers with their favorite writing machines, repair shops from around the world … even download free typewriter fonts like the one you’re seeing right now.
THE typewriter MANIFESTO
The credo of the insurgency. The fist of resistance against the Paradigm. Read it, type it, live by it.
Check out The Typewriter Revolution Manifesto in over a dozen languages. Your language not covered? Type it out, take a photo and email me. I’ll post it here.
The Typewriter Revolution
— W E B L O G —
Check out the latest:
The ROKR wooden typewriter: a closer look
In April I posted about the wooden typewriter from Chinese model kit company ROKR. Easily believing Rokr's prominent warning that this is "NOT A TYPING TOOL," I took it to be a charming, though arguably somewhat kitschy, tribute to typewriters rather than an...
At the swap meet
My efforts to sell much of my collection have been successful. The major step was holding a swap meet at WordPlay Cincy on May 2. It took some planning ... but it's fun for me to do things like design event tickets.The day before the meet, Dave Brechbiel very...
The sale is underway
My list of nearly 200 typewriters for sale went out to about 300 people on Saturday morning. I've had a good response, with about 1/3 of the typewriters sold or receiving bids so far.There is a good opportunity now to acquire the remaining 2/3 at quite affordable...
A wooden typewriter kit
Seen on eBay this morning. What do you think? They're honest about the fact that you can't type with it, but it looks like it can do more than the Lego typewriter and its imitators. The aesthetic is a little too cutesy for me, but this could be a fun weekend project....
See California Typewriter
DIRECTED by Doug Nichol
THE TYPEWRITER REVOLUTION appears in this film along with Tom Hanks, John Mayer, Sam Shepard, and others who love and enjoy typewriters. See this film and be inspired to discover an analog world lurking under the digital surface of our century.
In the Media
WordPlay Cincy encourages creativity, builds community for young people (WCPO)
Cincinnati Enquirer
The Writer Shed podcast
Wisconsin Public Radio
Red Transmissions Podcast
Mitch Teich, WUWM Milwaukee
?Barbara DeMarco Barrett, Writers on Writing Entertainment Weekly
Vintage Typewriters Gain Fans Amid "Digital Burnout" (AP)
Doug McIntyre, KABC
Viva la Typewriter! (Washington Post)
Typists of the World, Unite! (The Guardian)
Typewriters and the Art of Self-Sufficiency (Chicago Tribune)
Interview with Ralph Nader
Between the Lines: The Typewriter Revolution (WMUK)
The Typewriter Revolution is Underway (Cincinnati Magazine)
Antiques & The Arts Weekly
Leonard Lopate, WNYC
Mark Perzel, WVXU
The Beat with Mike Wesson
10 Reasons to Use a Typewriter (Rodale's Organic Life)
The Daily Beast
Dante Magazine
The New York Times
TIME
Winston-Salem Journal
Cincinnati Magazine
La Jolla Light
Low-tech Magazine
resist the techno-paradigm
Contact
Address
Richard Polt
Dept. of Philosophy
Xavier University
3800 Victory Pkwy.
Cincinnati, OH 45207
USA
