toward an archaeology of hearing and seeing by technical means /
Siegfried Zielinski ; translated by Gloria Custance
Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
c2006
xiv, 375 p. :
ill. ;
24 cm
Electronic culture--history, theory, practice
Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-361) and index
The idea of a deep time of the media -- Fortuitous finds instead of searching in vain: methodological borrowings and affinities for an anarchaeology of seeing and hearing by technical means -- Attraction and repulsion: Empedocles -- Magic and experiment: Giovan Battista Della Porta -- Light and shadow-consonance and dissonance: Athanasius Kircher -- Electrification, tele-writing, seeing close up: Johann Wilhelm Ritter, Joseph Chudy, and Jan Evangelista Purkynĕ -- The discovery of a pit, a camera obscura of iniquity: Cesare Lombroso -- The economy of time: Aleksej Kapitanovich Gastev -- Conclusions: Including a proposal for the cartography of media anarchaeology