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9780520262737

Media Archaeology

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  • ISBN13:

    9780520262737

  • ISBN10:

    0520262735

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2011-06-12
  • Publisher: Univ of California Pr

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Summary

This book introduces an archaeological approach to the study of media--one that sifts through the evidence to learn how media were written about, used, designed, preserved, and sometimes discarded, and to understand the way people were influenced by media that predate today's interactive, digital forms. Edited by Erkki Huhtamo and Jussi Parikka with contributions from an internationally diverse group of prominent scholars--from Europe, North America, and Japan--the essays in this book do not constitute a unified approach or method. Instead, while providing a broad overview of the emerging field's many historical and theoretical facets, the book presents itself as an open forum to encourage discussion by a full range of different voices and to offer new ways of understanding media and their roles in society and culture.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: An Archaeology of Media Archaeology
Engines of/in the Imaginary
Dismantling the Fairy Engine: Media Archaeology as Topos Study
On the Archaeology of Imaginary Media
On the Origins of the Origins of the Influencing Machine
Freud and the Technical Media: The Enduring Magic of the Wunderblock
(Inter)facing Media
The "Baby Talkie," Domestic Media, and the Japanese Modern
The Observer's Dilemma: To Touch or Not to Touch
The Game Player's Duty: The User as the Gestalt of the Ports
The Enduring Ephemeral, or The Future Is a Memory
Between Analogue and Digital
Erased Dots and Rotten Dashes, or How to Wire Your Head for a Preservation
Media Archaeography: Method and Machine versus History and Narrative of Media
Mapping Noise: Techniques and Tactics of Irregularities, Interception, and Disturbance
Objects of Our Affection: How Object Orientation Made Computers a Medium
Digital Media Archaeology: Interpreting Computational Processes
Afterword: Media Archaeology and Re-presencing the Past
Contributors
Selected Bibliography
Index
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