Digital culture is often characterized as radically breaking with
past technologies, practices, and ideologies rather than as
reflecting or incorporating them. Memory Bytes seeks to counter
such ahistoricism, arguing for the need to understand digital
culture-and its social, political, and ethical ramifications-in
historical and philosophical context. Looking at a broad range of
technologies, including photography, print and digital media, heat
engines, stereographs, and medical imaging, the contributors
present a number of different perspectives from which to reflect on
the nature of media change. While foregrounding the challenges of
drawing comparisons across varied media and eras, Memory Bytes
explores how technologies have been integrated into society at
different moments in time.These essays from scholars in the social
sciences and humanities cover topics related to science and
medicine, politics and war, mass communication, philosophy, film,
photography, and art. Whether describing how the cultural and legal
conflicts over player piano rolls prefigured controversies over the
intellectual property status of digital technologies such as mp3
files; comparing the experiences of watching QuickTime movies to
Joseph Cornell's "boxed relic" sculptures of the 1930s and 1940s;
or calling for a critical history of electricity from the
Enlightenment to the present, Memory Bytes investigates the
interplay of technology and culture. It relates the Information Age
to larger and older political and cultural phenomena, analyzes how
sensory effects have been technologically produced over time,
considers how human subjectivity has been shaped by machines, and
emphasizes the dependence of particular technologies on the
material circumstances within which they were developed and used.
Contributors. Judith Babbitts, Scott Curtis, Ronald E. Day, David
Depew, Abraham Geil, Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi, Lisa Gitelman, N.
Katherine Hayles, John Durham Peters, Lauren Rabinovitz, Laura
Rigal, Vivian Sobchack, Thomas Swiss
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