Deep Time of the Media Toward an Archaeology of Hearing and Seeing by Technical Means

Name: Deep Time of the Media Toward an Archaeology of Hearing and Seeing by Technical Means
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ISBN: 9780262740326

ISBN-10: 026274032X

ISBN-13: 9780262740326

Edition: 2008

Authors: Siegfried Zielinski, Gloria Custance, Timothy Druckrey

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Deep Time of the Mediatakes us on an archaeological quest into the hidden layers of media development -- dynamic moments of intense activity in media design and construction that have been largely ignored in the historical-media archaeological record. Siegfried Zielinski argues that the history of the media does not proceed predictably from primitive tools to complex machinery; in Deep Time of the Media, he illuminates turning points of media history--fractures in the predictable--that help us see the new in the old. Drawing on original source materials, Zielinski explores the technology of devices for hearing and seeing through two thousand years of cultural and technological history. He…

Book details

Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 2/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 389
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English

Siegfried Zielinski, a founder of the new field of media archaeology, is Founding Director of the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne, where he is Professor of Media and Communication Studies and is developing a workshop for a variantology of the media. He has published more than a dozen books and many articles. Deep Time of the Media is the second of his books to appear in English.



Foreword



Acknowledgments



Introduction: The Idea of a Deep Time of the Media



Fortuitous Finds Instead of Searching in Vain: Methodological Borrowings and Affinities for an Anarchaeology of Seeing and Hearing by Technical Means



Attraction and Repulsion: Empedocles



Magic and Experiment: Giovan Battista Della Porta



Light and Shadow-Consonance and Dissonance: Athanasius Kircher



Electrification, Tele-Writing, Seeing Close Up: Johann Wilhelm Ritter, Joseph Chudy, and Jan Evangelista Purkyne



The Discovery of a PIT, a Camera Obscura of Iniquity: Cesare Lombroso



The Economy of Time: Aleksej Kapitanovich Gastev



Conclusions: Including a Proposal for the Cartography of Media Anarchaeology


Notes


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