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Digital Memory and the Archive
Taschenbuch von Wolfgang Ernst
Sprache: Englisch

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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.
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.
Über den Autor
Wolfgang Ernst is Professor of Media Theories at the Institute of Musicology and Media Studies, Humboldt University, Germany. His many publications include Digital Memory and the Archive (2013).
Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 MediäTemporality: Pythagoras, Hertz, Turing


Appendix. Archive Rumblings: An Interview with Wolfgang Ernst

Geert Lovink


Acknowledgments

Notes

Publication History

Index


Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Genre: Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 276
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780816677672
ISBN-10: 0816677670
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Ernst, Wolfgang
Redaktion: Parikka, Jussi
Hersteller: University of Minnesota Press
Maße: 216 x 140 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Wolfgang Ernst
Erscheinungsdatum: 21.12.2012
Gewicht: 0,393 kg
preigu-id: 106494710
Über den Autor
Wolfgang Ernst is Professor of Media Theories at the Institute of Musicology and Media Studies, Humboldt University, Germany. His many publications include Digital Memory and the Archive (2013).
Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 MediäTemporality: Pythagoras, Hertz, Turing


Appendix. Archive Rumblings: An Interview with Wolfgang Ernst

Geert Lovink


Acknowledgments

Notes

Publication History

Index


Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Genre: Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 276
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780816677672
ISBN-10: 0816677670
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Ernst, Wolfgang
Redaktion: Parikka, Jussi
Hersteller: University of Minnesota Press
Maße: 216 x 140 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Wolfgang Ernst
Erscheinungsdatum: 21.12.2012
Gewicht: 0,393 kg
preigu-id: 106494710
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