Cultural Technique?
If you are wondering what the term Cultural Technique(s), or in its native language, Kulturtechniken, refers to - this is the quote you need. In most articles on the topic, Thomas Macho's words are...
View ArticleHow Many Media Archaeologies?
I gave recently some talks in Canada -- a talk and a seminar at Western University in London, Ontario, and then the keynote at the Canadian Communication Association-conference. Here is the first talk,...
View ArticleTechnological Archaeologies of Fetish
For some while, before really picking up on researching and writing what turned out as Insect Media I was gathering material and ideas for something on "Technological Perversions" - a sort of a...
View ArticleLow light of the past
"We make our journeys out there in the low light of the future, and return to the bourgeois day and its mass delusion of safety, to report on what we've seen. What are any of these 'utopian dreams' of...
View ArticleA Kittlerian moment with numbers
Pythagorian prayer to the Tetractys"Bless us, divine number, thou who generated gods and men! O holy, holy Tetractys, thou that containest the root and source of the eternally flowing creation! For the...
View ArticleDon't call him a media philosopher!
It was one year ago that Friedrich A. Kittler died. The German newspapers reacted, and slowly, The Guardian too, with a couple of writings and a podcast. I think that was it, for the English-speaking...
View ArticleA Review of What is Media Archaeology?
An interesting take on What is Media Archaeology? in Reviews in History. Not sure if I agree with all of the notes made by the reviewer, for instance:"Alongside the sophisticated middle-class consumer...
View ArticleAn interview with Wolfgang Ernst
The countdown to the Wolfgang Ernst volume, Digital Memory and the Archive, is on...only a couple of weeks. Meanwhile, listen to this new audio interview with Ernst - in English!
View ArticleNew reviews
Some new reviews -- Insect Media and Media Archaeology: Approaches, Applications and Implications were reviewed in Information, Communication & Society. And What is Media Archaeology? has received...
View ArticleMoil
The amount of discarded electronics, like broken or almost-broken televisions, computers nearly spewing their guts on the sides of streets - you do know where it all goes? Well, some of it goes to...
View ArticleMareorama Resurrected
Erkki Huhtamo's Audiovisual Performance Production "Mareorama Resurrected" now available for viewing onlineAn edited version of UCLA Design Media Arts Professor Erkki Huhtamo's acclaimed illustrated...
View ArticleAn Alternative Deep Time of the Media: A Geologically Tuned Media Ecology
Next week I am participating in this very exciting symposium at the Ruhr-University in Bochum, Germany. Convened by prof. Erich Hörl, it focuses on the General Ecology of Media and Technology -- as a...
View ArticleThe Underbelly of the Underground
London, 1860s. So much had to be in place and happen before Colonel Yolland acting on behalf of the Government stepped in and down. He was there to inspect the Underground, soon planned to be running...
View ArticleBerlin launch of some media archaeology books
Thanks to all who came to our transmediale'13 launch of What is Media Archaeology? and Wolfgang Ernst's Digital Memory and the Archive. We had a blast, and were able to both introduce the books and...
View ArticleOn the moving panorama and other media archaeological inspiration
Not every professor has an office like this. Peep into Erkki Huhtamo’s (UCLA) media archaeological office through this video, and get a taster of his enthusiasm as a collector: zoetropes, mutoscopes,...
View ArticleMedia Archaeology and Technological Debris
An event at Goldsmiths College in London:Postgraduate Workshop & Conference: Media Archaeology and Technological DebrisThursday, June 20 – Friday, June 21, 2013, Goldsmiths, University of...
View ArticleThe Archival Command: To Transmit and to Preserve
Whether media archaeology is even that close to Michel Foucault’s archaeology of knowledge is not always questioned. For Wolfgang Ernst, the link is very close, due to the notions of monument that one...
View ArticleWhat is Media Archaeology? reviewed in Neural
A new review of What is Media Archaeology in Neural (April 2013):"To understand the "futuristic" present we live in it's very important to know our past. This seems particularly true when it comes to...
View ArticleA German Affair?
Simone Natale reviews Media Archaeology alongside other media archaeology books (Zielinski and Kluitenberg).The full review came out in the Canadian Journal of Communication and you can find it here....
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