Digital memory and the archive / Wolfgang Ernst ; edited and with an introduction by Jussi Parikka.

Main entry:

Ernst, Wolfgang.

Title & Author:

Digital memory and the archive / Wolfgang Ernst ; edited and with an introduction by Jussi Parikka.

Publication:

Description:

265 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Series:

Electronic mediations ; v. 39

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Archival media theory: an introduction to Wolfgang Ernst's media archaeology / Jussi Parikka -- Media archeology as a transatlantic bridge -- pt. I. The media-archaeological method. Let there be irony: cultural history and media archaeology in parallel lines -- Media archaeography: method and machine versus the history and narrative of media -- pt. II. Temporality and the multimedial archive. Underway to the dual system: classical archives and digital memory -- Archives in transition: dynamic media memories -- Between real time and memory on demand: reflections on television -- Discontinuities: does the archive become metaphorical in multimedia space? -- pt. III. Microtemporal media. Telling versus counting: a media-archaeological point of view -- Distory: one hundred years of electron tubes, media-archaeologically interpreted, vis-à-vis one hundred years of radio -- Toward a media archaeology of sonic articulations -- Experimenting with media temporality: Pythagoras, Hertz, Turing -- Appendix. Archive rumblings: an interview with Wolfgang Ernst / Geert Lovink.

Summary:

This book brings together essays that present Ernst’s controversial materialist approach to media theory and history. His insights are central to the emerging field of media archaeology, which uncovers the role of specific technologies and mechanisms, rather than content, in shaping contemporary culture and society.

Resources:
ebrary

ISBN:

9780816677665 (hc ; acid-free paper)
0816677662 (hc ; acid-free paper)
9780816677672 (pb ; acid-free paper)
0816677670 (pb ; acid-free paper)

Subject:

Mass media Philosophy.
Digital media Social aspects.
Mass media Archival resources.
Médias Philosophie.
Médias numériques Aspect social.
Médias Fonds d'archives.
05.30 mass communication and mass media: general.
Media Studies.
Massenmedien
Digitalisierung
Archivierung
Gedächtnis
Digitala medier sociala aspekter.
Massmedia.
Medieteori.
Digital teknik.

Added entries:

Parikka, Jussi, 1976-
Electronic mediations ; v. 39.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 282060
Call No.: BIB 219198
Status: Available

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