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Deep time of the media : toward an archaeology of hearing and seeing by technical means / Siegfried Zielinski ; translated by Gloria Custance

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Electronic culture--history, theory, practicePublication details: Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT Press, [2006]Description: xiv, 375 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780262240499 .
  • 9780262240499 .
Uniform titles:
  • Archäologie der Medien: Zur Tiefenzeit das technischen Hörens und Sehens. English
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Partial contents:
Introduction: The idea of a deep time of the media -- Fortuitous finds instead of searching in vain: Methodological borrowings and affinities for an anarchaeology of seeing and hearing by technical means -- Attraction and repulsion: Empedocles -- Magic and experiment: Giovan Battista Della Porta -- Light and shadow - Consonance and dissonance: Athanasius Kircher -- Electrification, tele-writing, seeing close up: Johann Wilheelm Ritter, Joseph Chudy, and Jan Evangelista Purkyne -- The discovery of a pit, a camera obscura of iniquity: Cesare Lombroso -- The economy of time: Aleksej Kapitanovich Gastev -- Conclusions: Including a proposal for the cartography of media anarchaeology
Summary: Siegfried Zielinski argues that the history of the media does not proceed predictably from primitive tools to complex machinery. In 'Deep Time of the Media', he illuminates turning points of media history, that he calls fractures in the predictable, that help us see the new in the old.
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Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction: The idea of a deep time of the media -- Fortuitous finds instead of searching in vain: Methodological borrowings and affinities for an anarchaeology of seeing and hearing by technical means -- Attraction and repulsion: Empedocles -- Magic and experiment: Giovan Battista Della Porta -- Light and shadow - Consonance and dissonance: Athanasius Kircher -- Electrification, tele-writing, seeing close up: Johann Wilheelm Ritter, Joseph Chudy, and Jan Evangelista Purkyne -- The discovery of a pit, a camera obscura of iniquity: Cesare Lombroso -- The economy of time: Aleksej Kapitanovich Gastev -- Conclusions: Including a proposal for the cartography of media anarchaeology

Siegfried Zielinski argues that the history of the media does not proceed predictably from primitive tools to complex machinery. In 'Deep Time of the Media', he illuminates turning points of media history, that he calls fractures in the predictable, that help us see the new in the old.

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