[ecrea] new book: Digital Memory and the Archive

Explores how media infrastructure, not content, shapes contemporary digital culture

DIGITAL MEMORY AND THE ARCHIVE
By Wolfgang Ernst
Edited by Jussi Parikka
University of Minnesota Press | 280 pages | 2012
ISBN 978-0-8166-7767-2 | paperback | $25.00
ISBN 978-0-8166-7766-5 | cloth | $75.00
Series: Electronic Mediations, vol. 39

Digital Memory and the Archive, the first English-language collection of the German media theorist’s work, brings together essays that present Wolfgang Ernst’s controversial materialist approach to media theory and history. His insights are central to the emerging field of media archaeology, which uncovers the role of specific technologies and mechanisms, rather than content, in shaping contemporary culture and society.

PRAISE 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 and the mechanics of remaining. Finally, a definitive collection in English of one of the most brilliant and influential media archaeologists." —Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Wolfgang Ernst is chair of media theories at Humboldt University, Berlin. He is the author of several books, including most recently M.edium F.oucault, Das Rumoren der Archive, Im Namen von Geschichte, Das Gesetz des Gedächtnisses: Medien und Archive am Ende, and Chronopoetik.

Jussi Parikka is reader in media and design at the Winchester School of Art (UK) and adjunct professor at the University of Turku in Finland. His books include Insect Media (Minnesota, 2010) and What Is Media Archaeology?

For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book's webpage:
http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/digital-memory-and-the-archive
http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/series/electronic-mediations

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