User:ThomasW/Notes What is Media Archaeology

Parikka, Jussie (2012) What is Media Archaeology, United States of America, Polity Press

A lot of dead-media were actually zombie-media: living dears, that. Found an afterlife in a new contexts, new hands, new screens and machines. P3

is a source book of problems, solutions, and the solutions that became problems p8

It sounds so banal that it is slight painful to say it aloud, but one learns through the past – on in the sense of universal truths about how media evolution unfolds but in seeing the media pasts as reservoirs, toolboxes for decisions and thought. P 20 note: marshall mcluhamn “review mirror”

The discourse of networks of 1800 functioned without phonographs, gramophones or cinematographers. Only books could proved serial storage of serial data. They had been reproducible since Gutenberg, but they became material for understanding and fantasy when alphabetization had become ingrained. Books had previously been reproducible masses of letters; now they reproduced themselves. The scholarly republican heap of books in Fauts's study become a psychedelic drug for everyone. (Kittle 1900: 117) p71

Traditionally the archive was a place for storage, preservationtion, classification and access (Røssaak 2010b: 11). More concretely, we can see how the archive has been a key node in relaying and storing data of modern culture, and hence acted as a key medium in itself – very much connected to the bureaucratic mode of control alongside registering and manipulating data, primarily in offices and through offices and through office technologies: typewriters, calculators, spreadsheets, carbon copies and, later, databases, software-based applications, etc (Vismannn 2008) p113-114

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