toward an archaeology of hearing and seeing by technical means /
First Statement of Responsibility
Siegfried Zielinski ; translated by Gloria Custance
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Cambridge, Mass. :
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MIT Press,
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c2006
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xiv, 375 p. :
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ill. ;
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24 cm
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Electronic culture--history, theory, practice
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-361) and index
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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