This cutting-edge text offers an introduction to the emerging field of media archaeology and analyses the innovative theoretical and artistic methodology used to excavate current media through its past.Written with a steampunk attitude, "What is Media Archaeology" examines the theoretical challenges[...]
Since the early nineteenth century, when entomologists first popularized the unique biological and behavioral characteristics of insects, technological innovators and theorists have proposed insects as templates for a wide range of technologies. In "Insect Media," Jussi Parikka analyzes how insect f[...]
Media history is millions, even billions, of years old. That is the premise of this pioneering and provocative book, which argues that to adequately understand contemporary media culture we must set out from material realities that precede media themselves--Earth's history, geological formations, mi[...]
Smartphones, laptops, tablets, and e-readers all at one time held the promise of a more environmentally healthy world not dependent on paper and deforestation. The result of our ubiquitous digital lives is, as we see in "The Anthrobscene, "actually quite the opposite: not ecological health but an en[...]
Erkki Kurenniemi - A Man From The Future on kuuden suomalaisen tutkijan artikkeleista koottu tutkimusjulkaisu Erkki Kurenniemestä. Tutkijat valottavat Kurenniemen henkilöä, uraa ja toimintaa eri näkökulmista. Mukana on media-arkeologiaa, musiikintutkimusta, soitinrakentamisen kartoitusta, kriit[...]