Media archaeology : approaches, applications, and implications
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Media archaeology : approaches, applications, and implications
University of California Press, c2011
- : cloth
- : pbk
Available at 14 libraries
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Bibliography: p. 335-341
Includes index
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Description
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. Edited by Erkki Huhtamo and Jussi Parikka, with contributions from internationally prominent scholars from Europe, North America, and Japan, the essays help us understand how the media that predate today's interactive, digital forms were in their time contested, adopted and embedded in the everyday. Providing a broad overview of the many historical and theoretical facets of Media Archaeology as an emerging field, the book encourages discussion by presenting a full range of different voices. By revisiting 'old' or even 'dead' media, it provides a richer horizon for understanding 'new' media in their complex and often contradictory roles in contemporary society and culture.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: An Archaeology of Media Archaeology Erkki Huhtamo and Jussi Parikka Part I: Engines of/in the Imaginary 2. Dismantling the Fairy Engine: Media Archaeology as Topos Study Erkki Huhtamo 3. On the Archaeology of Imaginary Media Eric Kluitenberg 4. On the Origins of the Origins of the Influencing Machine Jeffrey Sconce 5. Freud and the Technical Media: The Enduring Magic of the Wunderblock Thomas Elsaesser Part II: (Inter)facing Media 6. The "Baby Talkie," Domestic Media, and the Japanese Modern Machiko Kusahara 7. The Observer's Dilemma: To Touch or Not to Touch Wanda Strauven 8. The Game Player's Duty: The User as the Gestalt of the Ports Claus Pias 9. The Enduring Ephemeral, or The Future Is a Memory Wendy Hui Kyong Chun Part III: Between Analogue and Digital 10. Erased Dots and Rotten Dashes, or How to Wire Your Head for a Preservation Paul DeMarinis 11. Media Archaeography: Method and Machine versus History and Narrative of Media Wolfgang Ernst 12. Mapping Noise: Techniques and Tactics of Irregularities, Interception, and Disturbance Jussi Parikka 13. Objects of Our Affection: How Object Orientation Made Computers a Medium Casey Alt 14. Digital Media Archaeology: Interpreting Computational Processes Noah Wardrip-Fruin 15. Afterword: Media Archaeology and Re-presencing the Past Vivian Sobchack Contributors Selected Bibliography Index
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