Media archaeology

Interdisciplinary field looking at the history, theory, and cultural impact of media technologies and practices.

Challenges the notions of technological progress, taking a non-linear, non-teleological approach to media history, and “excavating” alternative paths, dead-ends, discontinuities, ruptures, imaginary media concepts, and cyclical patterns.

Following Friedrich Kittler; investigates the interplay of old and new media, highlighting how past forms and ideas are remediated or recycled.

Strong emphasis on materiality, infrastructures, archives, “dead” media, storage technologies?

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: Experimental media archaeology