What Is Media Archaeology Chapitre
What Is Media Archaeology Chapitre
What Is Media Archaeology Chapitre
Hard(ware) theory
Image 4.1 Media archaeology has focused on a range of objects and appara-
tuses, often proto-cinematic ones but, increasingly, other forms of technical
media such as recording and sound reproduction. In addition to social con-
texts and, for instance, design, media-archaeological theories are interested
in going ‘under the hood’ to investigate the material diagrammatics and tech-
nologies of how culture is being mediatically stored and transmitted. L