[ecrea] Book announcement: What is media Archaeology? Jussi Parikka

I would like to draw your attention to Jussi Parikka's new book What is Media Archaeology?, published now by Polity.

What is Media Archaeology?
by Jussi Parikka – Winchester School of Art (University of Southampton)
http://politybooks.com/book.asp?ref=9780745650258
‘A fabulous map of media archaeology that, as its subject compels, produces its territory anew.’
Matthew Fuller, Goldsmiths, University of London
‘Jussi Parikka offers a lucid, concise, and highly readable account of a new and exciting field - media archaeology. He demonstrates that contemporary media forms are rooted to the past by multiple threads - untangling them helps us understand the media frenzy that currently surrounds us.’
Erkki Huhtamo, University of California Los Angeles
‘The most comprehensive coverage to date of this fascinating area of study. Parikka’s book offers an excellent overview of connections between the material and social aspects of media technology. He provides a thorough review of the diverse and sometimes contrasting theoretical foundations and provides a host of concrete examples of media-archaeological practice that serve to bridge the gap between heady theoretical trajectories and the concerns of practicing artists, users and other readers who take their technology seriously.’
Paul DeMarinis, Stanford University
May 2012 UK / June 2012 US
200 pages
978-0-7456-5026-5 PB £15.99 / $24.95
978-0-7456-5025-8 HB £50.00 / $69.95

Order your free inspection copy now!*
http://bit.ly/LG87au

*Free inspection copies are available only to full time lecturers teaching classes of over 12 students for whom the book may be appropriate as a course text.

Dr Stefanie Van de Peer
WSA Senior Research Fellow
Winchester Centre for Global Futures in Art Design&  Media
Winchester School of Art
University of Southampton
Park Avenue
Winchester
Hampshire
SO23 8DL

Centre for Global Futures:http://www.soton.ac.uk/wrc

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