Digital Memory and the Archive

Name: Digital Memory and the Archive
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ISBN: 9780816677672

ISBN-10: 0816677670

ISBN-13: 9780816677672

Edition: 2012

Authors: Wolfgang Ernst, Jussi Parikka

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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 theories of Wolfgang Ernst are particularly relevant.Digital Memory and the Archive, the first English-language…

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List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 12/21/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Archival Media Theory: An Introduction to Wolfgang Ernst's Media Archaeology



Media Archaeology as a Transatlantic Bridge



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



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 Became Metaphorical in Multimedia Space?



Microtemporal Media



Telling versus Counting: A Media-Archaeological Point of View



Distory: One Hundred Years of Electron Tubes, Media-Archaeologically Interpreted, vis-a-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 Woifgang Ernst



Acknowledgments


Notes


Publication History


Index