Media archaeology : approaches, applications, and implications /
edited by Erkki Huhtamo and Jussi Parikka.
- Berkeley, etc. : University of California Press, c2011.
- x, 356 p. : ill. b&w ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: toward an archaeology of media archaeology / Engines of/in the imaginary -- Dismantling the fairy engine: media archaeology as topos study / On the archaeology of imaginary media / On the origins of the origins of the influencing machine / Freud and the technical media : the enduring magic of the wunderblock / (Inter)facing media -- The "baby talkie," domestic media, and the Japanese modern / The observer's dilemma : to play or not to play / The game player's duty : the user as the gestalt of the ports / The enduring ephemeral, or the future is a memory / Between analog and digital -- Erased dots & rotten dashes-how to wire a head for a preservation / Media archaeography-method & machine versus history & narrative of media / Mapping noise : techniques and tactics of irregularities, interception and disturbance / Objects of our affection : how object-orientation made computers a medium / Digital media archaeology : interpreting computational processes / Afterword : media archaeology and re-presencing the past / Erkki Huhtamo and Jussi Parikka -- Erkki Huhtamo -- Eric Kluitenberg -- Jeffrey Sconce -- Thomas Elsaesser -- Machiko Kusahara -- Wanda Strauven -- Claus Pias -- Wendy Hui Kyong Chun -- Paul deMarinis -- Wolfgang Ernst -- Jussi Parikka -- Casey Alt -- Noah Wardrip-Fruin -- Vivian Sobchack. Ch. 1. Pt. 1. Ch. 2. Ch. 3. Ch. 4. Ch. 5. Pt. 2. Ch. 6. Ch. 7. Ch. 8. Ch.9. Pt. 3. Ch. 10. Ch. 11 Ch. 12. Ch. 13. Ch. 14. Ch. 15.
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.