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Digital Memory and the Archive
Wolfgang Ernst
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Description for Digital Memory and the Archive
Paperback. Editor(s): Parikka, Jussi. Series: Electronic Mediations. Num Pages: 256 pages, 6 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 328.
In 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. In this digital landscape, the archival-oriented media theories of Wolfgang Ernst are particularly relevant. Digital Memory and the Archive, the first English-language collection ... Read more
In 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. In this digital landscape, the archival-oriented media theories of Wolfgang Ernst are particularly relevant. Digital Memory and the Archive, the first English-language collection ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
Electronic Mediations
Condition
New
Weight
337g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816677672
SKU
V9780816677672
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About Wolfgang Ernst
Wolfgang Ernst is professor and chair at the Institute for Musicology and Media Studies at Humboldt University, Berlin. He is the author of several books, including M.edium F.oucault, Das Rumoren der Archive, and Das Gesetz des Gedachtnisses. His writings have appeared in English in several journals and publications. Jussi Parikka is reader in media and design at ... Read more
Reviews for Digital Memory and the Archive
Digital Memory and the Archive offers the most compelling and insightful account published to date of how and why objects matter. Moving beyond textual analysis, its careful, theoretically rigorous engagement with the relic
the physicality of the archive
promises to change the direction of the digital humanities. Thanks to this book, we will all now be addressing the microtemporality of archives ... Read more
the physicality of the archive
promises to change the direction of the digital humanities. Thanks to this book, we will all now be addressing the microtemporality of archives ... Read more