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== Books ==
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=== Gabrys, Jennifer (2007) DIGITAL RUBBISH ===
This book begins with the perception that digital technology is light, postindustrial, or de materialized. Worldwide, discarded electronics account for an average 35 million tons of trash per year.
Gabrys, 2007 page 61


Such a mass of discards has been compared to an equivalent disposal of 1,000 elephants
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every hour.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB7jSFeVz1U The Brain]
Gabrys, 2007 page  62


A colossal parade of elephants—silicon elephants—marches to the dump and beyond; suddenly, the immaterial abundance of digital technology appears deeply material.
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=== Books ===
==== Design ====
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_PostDigitalPrint Ludovico, Alessandro (2013) Post Digital Print]
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_OntheOutside Holt, Mark Muir, Hamish  8vo - On the Outside (2005), London, Lars Muller Publishers]
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_DesignAsArt Design as Art, Bruno Munari]
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_DesignWriterReseach Design Writer Reseach, Writing on Graphic Design, Ellen Lupton, Abbot Miller]
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_The_Designer_As The Designer As... Author, Producer, Activist, entrepreneur, Curator and collaborator: New Models for communication]
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_Do_Good Berman, David B. (2013) Do Good Design How Design Can Change the world ]
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_Graphic_Design_Theory Graphic Design Theory]
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_Swiss_Graphic_Design Swiss Graphic Design: The Origins and Growth of an International Style, 1920-1965]
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_Look_Closer_Five Look Closer Five, Critical Writings on Graphic Design]
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_The_Debate The Debate, The Legendary Contest of Two Giants of Graphic Design]
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_design_beyond_design Design Beyond Design]
* [[User:ThomasW/Notes_TEIABook|Schnapp , Jeffrey, et al (2012) The Electric Information Age Book: McLuhan/Agel/Fiore and the Experimental]]


Gabrys, 2007 page 14
==== Media Theory ====
* [[User:ThomasW/Notes_DIGITAL_RUBBISH|Gabrys, Jennifer (2007) DIGITAL RUBBISH]]
* [[User:ThomasW/Notes_FreeCulture|Lessig, Lawrence (2004) Free Culture]]
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_kittler Kittler Friedrich - Gramaphone, Film, Typewriter]
* [[User:ThomasW/Notes_DigitalCulture|Gere, Charlie (2002) Digital Culture]]
* [[User:ThomasW/Notes_Wikinomics|Tapscoot, Don, Williams, Anthony D (2008) Wikinomics]]
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_MediaandMemory Media and Memory - Joanne Garde-Hansen]
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_SocityoftheQueryReader Society of the Query Reader - Miriam Rasch and Rene Kanig]
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_Off_the_Network  Off the Network - Ulises Ali Mejias]
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_McLuhan_Marshall_Understanding_Media_The_Extensions_of_Man McLuhan_Marshall_Understanding_Media_The_Extensions_of_Man] (NEW)
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_The_Language_of_New_Media The Language of New Media]
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_you_are_not_a_gadget You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto ]
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_media_virus Rushkoff, Douglas - Media Virus]
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_RadicalTactics Radical Tatics of the Offline Library, Henry Warwick]
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_DigitalTailspin  Digital Tailspin Ten Rules for the Internet After Snowden]
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_The_Internet_Revolution The Internet Revolution]
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_Mediated_Memories_in_the_Digital_Age Mediated Memories in the Digital Age]
* [https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_Digital_Memory_and_Archive_Wolfgang_Ernst Digital Memory and Archive ]
* [https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_What_is_Media_Archaeology What is Media Archaeology ]
* [https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_The_Mathematical_Theory_of_Communication The Mathematical Theory of Communication ] NEW


Much of the technology in the museum or archive of electronic history is inaccessible, however: ancient computers do not function, software manuals are unreadable to all but a few, spools of punch tape separate from decoding devices, keyboards and printers and peripherals have no point of attachment, and training films cannot be viewed. Artifacts meant to connect to systems now exist as hollow forms covered with dust. In this sense, the electronic archive can be seen as a “museum of failure.”
==== History ====
Gabrys, 2007 page  64
* [[User:ThomasW/Notes_Imaginary_Futures|Barbrook, Richard (2007) Imaginary Futures: From Thinking Machines to the Global Village]]
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_whenwizardstayuplate Hafner, Katie, Lyon, Matthew, Where Wizards stay up late, the origins of the internett]
* [[User:ThomasW/Notes_BookstoBytes|Smith, Anthony (1993)  Books to Bytes: Knowledge and Information in the Postmodern Era]]
* [[User:ThomasW/Notes_VideoRevolutons|Newham Z, Michale (2014) Video Revolutions]]
* [[User:ThomasW/Notes_InTheBeginning|Stephenson, Neal - In The Beginning... Was The Command Line]]
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_NewMediaReader New Media Reader / The Medium is the Message / Computer Lib, Dream Machines +++ ]
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_Perfecting_Sound_Forever Perfecting Sound Forever]
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_A_Universal_History_of_the_Destruction_of_Books History of the Destruction of Books]
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_The_$12_Million_Stuffed_Shark The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art]
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_Paper_Knowelge Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents (Sign, Storage, Transmission)] NEW


==== Archiving ====
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_Zorgen_Vooor_Onzichtbare_Assets,_Over_Het_Behoud_Van_Digitale_AV-Collecties Zorgen Vooor Onzichtbare Assets, Over Het Behoud Van Digitale AV-Collecties]


 It is a record of failed and outdated technologies. If it collects anything, it collects a record of obsolescence. The idleness of these electronic artifacts ultimately raises questions about how tech-
=== Online ===
nology demarcates duration
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_small_notes Different smaller online sources]


Gabrys, 2007 page 15
* [https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_The_Fiction_of_the_Creative_Industries Florian Cramer, The Fiction of the Creative Industries]
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_MediaArchaeologyOutofNature Media Archaeology Out of Nature: An Interview with Jussi Parikka]
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_How_the_compact_disc_lost_its_shine How the compact disc lost its shine]
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_The_quest_to_save_today%E2%80%99s_gaming_history_from_being_lost_forever The quest to save today’s gaming history from being lost forever]
*  [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_The_Enduring_Ephemeral,_or_the_Future_Is_a_Memory  The Enduring Ephemeral, or the Future Is a Memory]
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_The_Age_of_Erasable_Books The Age of Erasable Books]
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_Pandora's_Vox_Redux Pandora's Vox Redux]
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_TexfilesCom Different texts form Textfiles.com ]
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_as_we_may_think As We May Think - Vannevar Bush]
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_Capturing_and_Preserving_the_First_Draft_of_History_in_the_Digital_Environment Capturing and Preserving the First Draft of History in the Digital Environment]
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_Why_should_we_trust_Google_Drive,_or_any_cloud_storage_service Why should we trust Google Drive, or any cloud storage service?]
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_Saving_the_news:_When_your_server_crashes,_you_could_lose_decades_of_digital_news_content Saving the news: When your server crashes, you could lose decades of digital news content - forever ]
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_Raiders_of_the_Lost_Web Raiders of the Lost Web]
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_The_Irony_of_Writing_Online_About_Digital_Preservation The Irony of Writing Online About Digital Preservation]
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_What_the_Web_Said_Yesterday The Cobweb Can the Internet be archived? ]
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_how_digital_storage_is_changing_the_way How Digital Storage Is Changing the Way We Preserve History ] NEW
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_heideggers_critique_of_modern Heidegger’s Critique of Modern Technology: On “The Question Concerning Technology” ] NEW
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_bbc_domesday "Re: BBC Domesday Project (Leeson, RISKS-21.93)". ] NEW


Rubbish Theory, rubbish is a way of understanding the relative position of value relations.
=== Magazines ===
Gabrys, 2007 page 66
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_Spectator Spectator Vol 22 No.1 Spring 2007 - Media Access Preservation and Technologies]
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_Volumes:_The_Book_as_Exhibition Volumes: The Book as Exhibition ]


Waste is, in this sense, what cultural theorist Walter Moser calls a “category of transition, a limit category.”
=== Video / Films / Documentary's / Online Video ===
Gabrys, 2007 page  67
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_DigitalAmnesia Digital Amnesia]¨
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-2vv7Y6Rww CBS Sunday Morning: David Pogue on Data Rot]
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_stealthisfilm Steal This Film]


Waste reveals the economies of value within digital technology that render valueless, for instance, a computer that is more than three years old. This collapse in value demonstrates assumptions within electronics—based on duration, novelty, and consistent consumption—that might otherwise go unnoticed, if it were not for the now-looming rubbish pile.
=== Online Talks and Podcasts ===
Gabrys, 2007 page Page 17
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_ButStorageisCheap But Storage is Cheap: Digital Preservation in the Age of Abundance]
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_podcasts Typeradio.org Rick Poynor + Jason Scott ]
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_FireFireFire Jason Scott - The House is on Fire, the Fire Trucks are on Fire, The Fire is on Fire]
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_MisterHokum The Mysterious Mister Hokum Jason Scott]
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/JasonScotttalksDigitalHistoryandContentPreservationJason Scott talks Digital History and Content Preservation]
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_creativeoftheweb Preserving the Creative Culture of the Web]
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_Recycledfilm AV Festival 10: Recycled Film Symposium: Rick Prelinger Pioneering Internet Archivists Brewster Kahle and Rick Prelinger on Preservation in the Digital Age]
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_newinfrastructure Brewster Kahle - A New Infrastructure For A Knowledge Economy]
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_Marshall_Mcluhan_the_medium_is_the_message_1977 Marshall Mcluhan Full lecture: The medium is the message - 1977]
*  [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Notes_BookInBrowsers Book In Browsers]


Digital technologies are disposable, and data is transient.
==== To be added ====
Gabrys, 2007 page 17
* [http://twit.tv/show/triangulation/98 Triangulation 98 : Brewster Kahle]
* [https://huffduffer.com/adactio/66783 Episode 09 – Jason Scott | iNetizen.org | Hacker’s Podcast - By Hackers and for Hackers]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmXldvwCmxM HOPE Number Nine (2012): Jason Scott's Strange and Wonderful Digital History Argosy] (Notes Soon)


=== Talks / Events ===
* [[User:ThomasW/Books_ICA|What Makes a book Rare? / 2014 / London]]
* [[User:ThomasW/Thomas_Impakt|Impakt / 2014 / Utrecht]]
* [[User:ThomasW/Thomas_Transmediale15|Transmediale / 2015 / Berlin]]
* [https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/Thomas_impakt15 Impakt 2015] NEW


In his classic 1945 text “As We May Think,” computing pioneer Vannevar Bush discusses the possibilities for collapsing media,such as film and books, to a miniscule size with technologies of compression.
=== Interview ===
Gabrys, 2007 page  35
* [https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/interview_LGR Lazy Game Review]




The Encyclopedia Britannica could be reduced to the volume of a matchbox. A library of a million volumes could be compressed into one end of a desk. If the human race has produced since the invention of movable type a total record, in the form of magazines, newspapers, books, tracts, advertising blurbs, correspondence, having a volume corresponding to a billion books, the whole affair, assembled and compressed, could be lugged off in a moving van.
=== Design / Art / Projects ===
Gabrys, 2007 page 36
* [http://flowingdata.com/2011/09/27/deleted-geocities-archive-visualized-as-city/ Deleted Geocities]
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=== Reading & Writing ===
* [[User:Thomas/DerridaandfoucaultThomasW|Notes on Derrida and Foucault on the archive]]
* [[User:ThomasW/MeandwritingThomasW|Reading and Writing Version 1]]
* [[User:ThomasW/ReadingandWritingVersion2|Reading and Writing Version 2]]
* [[User:ThomasW/3thingsThomasW|Three things]]
* [[User:ThomasW/thomasanecdote|Anecdote]]
* [[User:ThomasW/3thingsThomasW/howlittleweknow|How Little We Know]]
* [[User:ThomasW/anecdots_weliveinpubiic|Anecdotes: We Live In Public]]
* [[User:ThomasW/anecdots_correct_training|Anecdotes: The Means Of Correct Training]]
* [[User:ThomasW/hybrid_text|Hybrid text]]
* [[A_Hyperized_Story|A Hyperized Story]]
* [[User:ThomasW/ideology|Ideology]]
* [[User:ThomasW/247news|Ideology text]]
* [[User:ThomasW/ThomasNotes4215|Notes]]
* [[User:ThomasW/Walter_Notes|Text and Notes from Walter Benjamin]]*


Connections. As Kelly writes, If you have the only fax machine in the world it is worth nothing.
=== Other ===
But for every other fax installed in the world, your fax machine increases in value. In fact, the more faxes in the world, the more valuable everybody’s fax becomes. This is the logic of the Net, also known as the law of increasing returns. It goes contrary to classical economic theories of wealth based on equilibration tradeoff. These state that you can’t get something from nothing. The truth
* [https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:ThomasW/BBCDoomsday Domesday Project Case Study]
is, you can. . . . In network economics, more brings more.


Gabrys, 2007 page  67


Yet there are also spaces of more official demattering that we can turn to in order to consider how
=== STUFF ===
we deal with the loss of material culture. The museum or archive is perhaps primary among these designated spaces for witnessing or arrestingthe erosion and erasure of material culture. These are sites that managethe duration and space of material release but also preserve a concrete record of the program of transience within electronics. In the next chapter, I consider how the museum and archive offer up spaces
Exploiting the power of nostalgia
Gabrys, 2007 page  98
Research driven
 
Yet there are also spaces of more official demattering that we can turn to in order to consider how
we deal with the loss of material culture. The museum or archive is perhaps primary among these designated spaces for witnessing or arresting the erosion and erasure of material culture. These are sites that managethe duration and space of material release but also preserve a concrete record of the program of transience within electronics. In the next chapter, I consider how the museum and archive offer up space.
Gabrys, 2007 page  105
 
Many electronics relegated to museums undergo such a rapid scale and rate of demattering that preservation is rendered problematic. Preservation becomes another word for managed decay, for a delay within the extended process of disposal.
Gabrys, 2007 page 107
 
The operation of memory reaches such an extent that it has, at various times, even seemed to render “man” obsolete. In 1962, for example, as Arthur Clarke writes in “The Obsolescence of Man,” “Marquardt Corporation’s Astro Division had just announced a new memory storage
device that could store inside a six-foot cube all information recorded during the last 10,000 years.”
Gabrys, 2007 page  12
 
Clarke describes an unprecedented archive, which occupies a mere six cubic feet in physical space but extends out 10,000 years into the temporal dimension. He elaborates on this new
temporal compression, That would mean, of course, not only every book ever printed, but
everything ever written in any language on paper, papyrus, parchment or stone. It represents a capacity untold millions of times greater than that of a single human memory, and though there is
a mighty gulf between merely storing information and thinking creatively—the Library of Congress has never written a book—it does indicate that mechanical brains of enormous power could be
very small in physical size.
Gabrys, 2007 page 109
 
Ten thousand years may be ensconced in a six-foot cube, but without a means to access the data, we can only gaze wistfully at the minimal cube and wonder at the inaccessible 10,000 years that did, at one time, fire through its busy circuits. Increasingly, this issue has become a quandary for electronic archives. Former director of the Getty Conservation Institute Miguel Angel Corzo indicates how digital media of even the most significant cultural moments quickly evaporate. “For instance,” he writes, “digitized images from the historic 1976 Viking mission to Mars that had been carefully stored and appeared to be in good condition are now degraded and unreadable.”
Gabrys, 2007 page 110
 
Sterling suggests that in these technologies of time, we repeatedly generate leftovers, all sorts of “prehistoric” hardware. In this sense, “trash is always our premier cultural export to the future.”
 
Ancient hardware turns up in the future, but, then, what would the future be without its rubbish? Surely it would lose all sense of futurity—of newness—if it did not have some identifiably obsolete remnants. It may be that electronic technologies do not just generate obsolete remainders but also positively rely on these remainders—these old media—to gauge what is new. It is in this same temporal density that emerges with obsolescence that Benjamin is able to direct us to let the dust settle until we see that the driving force of technological progress may, in fact, be standing still.
Gabrys, 2007 page 113
 
Data is not lost because it is not archived, however; it is lost because it is archived, because it is digitized and entered into the seemingly endless electronic stores that are also increasingly volatile sites of memory. Economies of erasure, as much as economies of memory, emerge with the electronic archive. We have the capacity to store everything for possible recall, but these same extended memory technologies are capable of generating oblivion in other ways—not least of which is through the technology-++++
Gabrys, 2007 page 120-123
 
The electronic waste of history will require continual refurbishment and reinterpretation. Perhaps now that “electronic waste” has become a carrier of our cultural and material lives, we may turn to consider how to salvage so much lost material.  (  “trash is always our premier cultural export to the future.”?
Gabrys, 2007 page 124
 
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