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Digital Memory and the Archive (Paperback)
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Digital Memory and the Archive (Paperback)
Series: Electronic Mediations
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In the popular imagination, archives are remote, largely obsolete
institutions: either antiquated, inevitably dusty libraries or
sinister repositories of personal secrets maintained by police
states. Yet the archive is now a ubiquitous feature of digital
life. Rather than being deleted, e-mails and other computer files
are archived. Media software and cloud storage allow for the
instantaneous cataloging and preservation of data, from music,
photographs, and videos to personal information gathered by social
media sites. In this digital landscape, the archival-oriented media
theories of Wolfgang Ernst are particularly relevant. Digital
Memory and the Archive, the first English-language collection of
the German media theorist's work, brings together essays that
present 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. Ernst's interrelated ideas on the archive,
machine time and microtemporality, and the new regimes of memory
offer a new perspective on both current digital culture and the
infrastructure of media historical knowledge. For Ernst, different
forms of media systems-from library catalogs to sound
recordings-have influenced the content and understanding of the
archive and other institutions of memory. At the same time, digital
archiving has become a contested site that is highly resistant to
curation, thus complicating the creation and preservation of
cultural memory and history.
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