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Digital Memory and the Archive: (Electronic Mediations)

Digital Memory and the Archive: (Electronic Mediations)


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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 collection of the German media theorist’s work, 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. Ernst’s interrelated ideas on the archive, machine time and microtemporality, and the new regimes of memory offer a new perspective on both current digital culture and the infrastructure of media historical knowledge. For Ernst, different forms of media systems-from library catalogs to sound recordings-have influenced the content and understanding of the archive and other institutions of memory. At the same time, digital archiving has become a contested site that is highly resistant to curation, thus complicating the creation and preservation of cultural memory and history.

Table of Contents:
Contents Archival Media Theory: An Introduction to Wolfgang Ernst’s Media Archaeology Jussi Parikka Media Archaeology as a Trans-Atlantic 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 History and Narrative of Media Part II. From Temporality to 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 Multi-Media Space? Part III. Microtemporal Media 7. Telling versus Counting: A Media-Archaeological Point of View 8. Distory: 100 Years of Electron Tubes, Media-Archaeologically Interpreted vis-À-vis 100 Years of Radio 9. Towards a Media Archaeology of Sonic Articulations 10. Experimenting Media‐Temporality: Pythagoras, Hertz, Turing Appendix. Archive Rumblings: An Interview with Wolfgang Ernst Geert Lovink Acknowledgments Notes Publication History Index

About the Author :
Wolfgang Ernst is professor and chair at the Institute for Musicology and Media Studies at Humboldt University, Berlin. He is the author of several books, including M.edium F.oucault, Das Rumoren der Archive, and Das Gesetz des Gedchtnisses. His writings have appeared in English in several journals and publications. Jussi Parikka is reader in media and design at the Winchester School of Art (UK) and adjunct professor at the University of Turku in Finland. His books include Insect Media (Minnesota, 2010) and What Is Media Archaeology?

Review :
""Digital Memory and the Archive" offers the most compelling and insightful account published to date of how and why objects matter. Moving beyond textual analysis, its careful, theoretically rigorous engagement with the relic--the physicality of the archive--promises to change the direction of the digital humanities. Thanks to this book, we will all now be addressing the microtemporality of archives and the mechanics of remaining. Finally, a definitive collection in English of one of the most brilliant and influential media archaeologists." --Wendy Hui Kyong Chun


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  • ISBN-13: 9780816677665
  • Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 256
  • Spine Width: 38 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0816677662
  • Publisher Date: 20 Dec 2012
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Electronic Mediations
  • Width: 140 mm


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