... the discourse of cultural history. As long as media are not mistaken for their mass-media content, they turn out to be nondiscursive entities, belonging to a different temporal regime that, to be analyzed, requires an alternative means of description. A certain rejection of what cultural history had so far...

... LeVeque Les Manovich Lev Virtual Reality Modeling Language World Wide Web ars memoriae Drowning by Numbers Greenaway Greenaway Peter memory Pythagoras Media Archaeology media theory German media theory media studies; archive new media theory digital humanities cultural history of technology ...

... exists in discrete “states.” On the one hand, such experimental settings clearly belong to what we call and describe as cultural history (or the “history of knowledge,” in more Latourean terms), but on the other hand (from the point of view of the media themselves, and hence the media-archaeological...

... system ADS Taussig Michael Barthes Roland Benjamin Walter Raytheon Camera Obscura of Ideology Kofman Kracauer Siegfried Rodowick David Kofman Sarah Siberia Soviet Evenki Photography Photographic Theory Archives Cultural History Sovietization Indigenous Peoples early twentieth century...

... Cities urban media cultural history archaeology infrastructure print radio sound telecommunications Over 6,500 years ago, not far from where the radicals of Islamic State have been bulldozing ancient mud-brick temples and sacrilegious shrines; sledge-hammering idolatrous stone statues; burning “haram...

... for Thompson Emily deep time Schafer R Murray Hitler Adolf Cities urban media cultural history archaeology infrastructure print radio sound telecommunications A 2000 photograph by Richard Pare (see p. 116) depicts architect-engineer Vladimir Shukhov’s Shabolovka radio tower, commissioned by Lenin...

... and entertainment. This book maps this pivotal and overlooked facet of Argentine cultural history, showing how politics emerged from dress to disrupt authoritarian practices and stimulate creativity in a newly independent nation. Drawing from genres as diverse as fiction, poetry, songs, and fashion magazines...

... Solomon Frank agora Athenian Atget Eugène newsstands photography “Newsstand 32nd Street and Third Avenue Manhattan” 1935 Printing House Square London Saveri Lele Davey Moyra Hill Dan magazines little San Francisco Panorama McSweeney’s literary journal media Cities urban media cultural history...

... of the Northern Peoples to Socialism The Uvachan Shnirelman Victor A Evenki National District Meisner Maurice Lipp Jan Stepanovich Kolarz Walter Krasnoiarsk Committee of the North Siberia Soviet Evenki Photography Photographic Theory Archives Cultural History Sovietization Indigenous Peoples early...

... starts to think through our mediatic world as the conditions for the way in which we know things and do them—knowledge and power. Ernst insists that media archaeology differs from cultural history. This as such is not a huge surprise, because it stems from the wider adoption of Foucault’s methods...

.... In accordance with Foucault’s Archaeology of Knowledge, media archaeology makes us aware of discontinuities in media cultures as opposed to the reconciling narratives of cultural history. In that aim, media archaeology is not strictly opposed to the media-phenomenological approach at all...

... is opposed to the perspective of cultural history that tends to privilege evolutionary continuities and soft transformations. According to Roland Barthes, media archaeology emphasizes photography as a decisive mutation in informational economies. Photomechanical reproduction as a technology...

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... of writing. ³⁵ For the longest time in cultural history, storage of data and the means of operating them have been kept separately. The symbol-processing machine (the computer in its von Neumann architecture), though, does not separate data and programs anymore; rather both are deposited equally...

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... to the suggested model of cultural history, we are about to leave the one-dimensionality of history for a new, dimensionless level, one to be called “posthistory.” But in order to live, one must try to make the universe and consciousness concrete. Technical images arise in an attempt to consolidate particles...

... not to die. If we compare natural history with cultural history, that is, the random with the strategic production of information, intentional creation (freedom) appears in a new light. In particular, it appears that in both cases, a discontinuous progress is occurring amid general ruin. Even in cultural...

... the cultural history that led to the encoding and decoding of life itself and the contemporary turning of these codes into a commodity. But it also contends that, beyond good and evil, the essential “junkiness” of this new subject is both the symptom and the potential cure....