New Media Archaeologies (Recursions)

This collection of essays highlights innovative work in the developing field of media archaeology. It explores the relationship between theory and practice and the relationship between media archaeology and other disciplines. There are three sections to the collection proposing new possible fields of research for media studies: Media Archaeological Theory; Experimental Media Archaeology; Media Archaeology at the Interface. The book includes essays from acknowledged experts in this expanding field, such as Thomas Elsaesser, Wanda Strauven and Jussi Parikka. Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Part 1: Experimental Media Archaeology 1. Media Archaeology as Laboratory for History Writing and Theory Making 2. Doing Experimental Media Archaeology. Epistemological and Methodological Reflections on Experiments with Historical Objects of Media Technologies 3. The Ghosts of Media Archaeology 4. (game)(code). re-playing program listings from 1980s British computer magazines Part 2: Media Archaeological Theory 5. Cinema, Motion, Energy, and Entropy 6. Collector, Hoarder, Media Archaeologist. Walter Benjamin with Vivian Maier 7. Media Archaeology and Critical Theory of Technology Part 3: Media Archaeology at the Interface 8. The Cube: A Cinema Archaeology 9. Inventing Pasts and Futures. Speculative Design and Media Archaeology Index This collection of essays highlights innovative work in the emerging field of media archaeology. It explores the relationship between theory and practice and the relationship between media archaeology and other disciplines. There are three sections to the collection proposing new possible fields of research for media studies: Media Archaeological Theory; Experimental Media Archaeology; Media Archaeology at the Interface. The book includes essays from acknowledged experts in this expanding field, such as Thomas Elsaesser, Wanda Strauven and Jussi Parikka

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