Media Archaeology: Approaches, Applications, and Implications

Published by University of California Press 2011

Media Archaeology

Approaches, Applications, and Implications

Edited by: Erkki Huhtamo and Jussi Parikka

https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520948518

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

HuhtamoErkki:

Erkki Huhtamo is Professor of Design | Media Arts at the University of California, Los Angeles. Jussi Parikka is Reader at Winchester School of Art (University of Southampton, UK) and the author of Digital Contagions: A Media Archaeology of Computer Viruses and Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
1. Introduction: An Archaeology of Media Archaeology Erkki Huhtamo and Jussi Parikka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part One. Engines of/in the Imaginary
2. Dismantling the Fairy Engine: Media Archaeology as Topos Study Erkki Huhtamo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
3. On the Archaeology of Imaginary Media Eric Kluitenberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
4. On the Origins of the Origins of the Influencing Machine Jeffrey Sconce Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
5. Freud and the Technical Media: The Enduring Magic of the Wunderblock Thomas Elsaesser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
Part Two. (Inter)facing Media
6. The “Baby Talkie,” Domestic Media, and the Japanese Modern Machiko Kusahara Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
7. The Observer’s Dilemma: To Touch or Not to Touch Wanda Strauven Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
8. The Game Player’s Duty: The User as the Gestalt of the Ports Claus Pias Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	164
9. The Enduring Ephemeral, or The Future Is a Memory Wendy Hui Kyong Chun Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	184
Part III: Between Analogue and Digital
10. Erased Dots and Rotten Dashes, or How to Wire Your Head for a Preservation Paul DeMarinis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
11. Media Archaeography: Method and Machine versus History and Narrative of Media Wolfgang Ernst Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
12. Mapping Noise: Techniques and Tactics of Irregularities, Interception, and Disturbance Jussi Parikka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	256
13. Objects of Our Affection: How Object Orientation Made Computers a Medium Casey Alt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	278
14. Digital Media Archaeology: Interpreting Computational Processes Noah Wardrip-Fruin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	302
15. Afterword: Media Archaeology and Re-presencing the Past Vivian Sobchack Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	323
Selected Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	335
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	343
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	347