Deep time of the media: toward an archaeology of hearing and seeing by technical means

"Deep Time of the Media takes us on an archaeological quest into the hidden layers of media development - dynamic moments of intense activity in media design and construction that have been largely ignored in the historical-media archaeological record. Siegfried Zielinski argues that the histor...

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1. Verfasser: Zielinski, Siegfried 1951- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press 2006
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Zusammenfassung:"Deep Time of the Media takes us on an archaeological quest into the hidden layers of media development - dynamic moments of intense activity in media design and construction that have been largely ignored in the historical-media archaeological record. 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 - fractures in the predictable - that help us see the new in the old."--BOOK JACKET.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-361) and index
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 Wilhelm Ritter, Joseph Chudy, and Jan Evangelista Purkynĕ -- 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
Beschreibung:xiv, 375 p. ill. 24 cm

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