Choice Reviews Online· 2013
Digital memory and the archive
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This abstract outlines a book exploring media archaeology and its application to understanding digital memory and archives. It details the book's structure, covering theoretical methods, the transition to digital archives, and microtemporal media.
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Key points
- The book examines media archaeology as a method for understanding historical media.
- It analyzes the transition from classical archives to digital memory systems.
- Specific topics include the dual system of archives, dynamic media memories, and television's temporal aspects.
- Microtemporal media, electron tubes, radio, and sonic art are explored through a media-archaeological lens.
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Abstract
Contents Archival Media Theory: An Introduction to Wolfgang Ernst's Media Archaeology Jussi Parikka Media Archaeology as a Trans-Atlantic Bridge Part I. The Media Archaeological Method 1. Let There Be Irony: Cultural History and Media Archaeology in Parallel Lines 2. Media Archaeography: Method and Machine versus History and Narrative of Media Part II. From Temporality to the Multimedial Archive 3. Underway to the Dual System: Classical Archives and Digital Memory 4. Archives in Transition: Dynamic Media Memories 5. Between Real Time and Memory on Demand: Reflections on Television 6. Discontinuities: Does the Archive Become Metaphorical in Multi-Media Space? Part III. Microtemporal Media 7. Telling versus Counting: A Media-Archaeological Point of View 8. Distory: 100 Years of Electron Tubes, Media-Archaeologically Interpreted vis-a-vis 100 Years of Radio 9. Towards a Media Archaeology of Sonic Articulations 10. Experimenting Media-Temporality: Pythagoras, Hertz, Turing Appendix. Archive Rumblings: An Interview with Wolfgang Ernst Geert Lovink Acknowledgments Notes Publication History Index
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