Files : law and media technology
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Files : law and media technology
（Meridian : crossing aesthetics / Werner Hamacher & David E. Wellbery, editors）
Stanford University Press, 2008
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- : pbk
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Akten : Medientechnik und recht
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Originally published: Frankfurt am Main : Fischer Taschenbuch, 2000
Includes bibliographical references
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Description
Quod non est in actis, non est in mundo. (What is not on file is not in the world.) Once files are reduced to the status of stylized icons on computer screens, the reign of paper files appears to be over. With the epoch of files coming to an end, we are free to examine its fundamental influence on Western institutions. From a media-theoretical point of view, subject, state, and law reveal themselves to be effects of specific record-keeping and filing practices. Files are not simply administrative tools; they mediate and process legal systems. The genealogy of the law described in Vismann's Files ranges from the work of the Roman magistrates to the concern over one's own file, as expressed in the context of the files kept by the East German State Security. The book concludes with a look at the computer architecture in which all the stacks, files, and registers that had already created order in medieval and early modern administrations make their reappearance.
Table of Contents
@fmct:Contents @toc4:Translator's Note iii Preface: Off the Record iii @toc2:Chapter 1: Law's Writing Lessons 000 Chapter 2: From Translating to Legislating 000 Chapter 3: From Documents to Records 000 Chapter 4: Governmental Practices 000 Chapter 5: From the Bureau to Data Protection 000 Chapter 6: Files-Icons 000 @toc4:Notes 000 Index 000
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