{"product_id":"digital-memory-and-the-archive-paperback-softback-9780816677672","title":"Digital Memory and the Archive (Paperback \/ softback) 9780816677672","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eDigital Memory and the Archive\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eWolfgang Ernst (Author), Jussi Parikka (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780816677672\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 21 December 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 3.8 cm, 0.362 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this digital landscape, the archival-oriented media theories of Wolfgang Ernst are particularly relevant. \u003ci\u003eDigital Memory and the Archive\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eErnst’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. \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eArchival Media Theory: An Introduction to Wolfgang Ernst’s Media Archaeology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJussi Parikka\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMedia Archaeology as a Trans-Atlantic Bridge\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I. The Media Archaeological Method\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Let There Be Irony: Cultural History and Media Archaeology in Parallel Lines\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2. Media Archaeography: Method and Machine versus History and Narrative of Media\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II. From Temporality to the Multimedial Archive\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3. Underway to the Dual System: Classical Archives and Digital Memory\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4. Archives in Transition: Dynamic Media Memories\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5. Between Real Time and Memory on Demand: Reflections on Television \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6. Discontinuities: Does the Archive Become Metaphorical in Multi-Media Space? \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart III. Microtemporal Media\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7. Telling versus Counting: A Media-Archaeological Point of View\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8. Distory: 100 Years of Electron Tubes, Media-Archaeologically Interpreted vis-À-vis 100 Years of Radio\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e9. Towards a Media Archaeology of Sonic Articulations\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e10. Experimenting Media‐Temporality: Pythagoras, Hertz, Turing\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix. Archive Rumblings: An Interview with Wolfgang Ernst\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGeert Lovink\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublication History\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52676640178456,"sku":"9780816677672","price":20.38,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/digital-memory-and-the-archive-paperback-softback-9780816677672","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}