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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828710203321

Autore

Ernst Wolfgang

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, MN, : University of Minnesota Press, c2013

ISBN

1-4529-4806-2

0-8166-8199-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Collana

Electronic mediations ; ; v. 39

Altri autori (Persone)

ParikkaJussi <1976->

Disciplina

302.23/1

Soggetti

Mass media - Philosophy

Digital media - Social aspects

Mass media - Archival resources

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Contents -- Archival Media Theory: An Introduction to Wolfgang Ernst's Media Archaeology -- Media Archaeology as a Transatlantic 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 the History and Narrative of Media -- Part II. Temporality and 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 Multimedia Space? -- Part III. Microtemporal Media -- 7 Telling versus Counting: A Media-Archaeological Point of View -- 8 Distory: One Hundred Years of Electron Tubes, Media-Archaeologically Interpreted, vis-a-vis One Hundred Years of Radio -- 9 Toward a Media Archaeology of Sonic Articulations -- 10 Experimenting with Media Temporality: Pythagoras, Hertz, Turing -- Appendix. Archive Rumblings: An Interview with Wolfgang Ernst Geert Lovink -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Publication History -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.



Sommario/riassunto

In the popular imagination, archives are remote, largely obsolete institutions: either antiquated, inevitably dusty libraries or sinister repositories of personal secrets maintained by police states. Yet the archive is now a ubiquitous feature of digital life. Rather than being deleted, e-mails and other computer files are archived. Media software and cloud storage allow for the instantaneous cataloging and preservation of data, from music, photographs, and videos to personal information gathered by social media sites.In this digital landscape, the archival-oriented media theori