List of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix
1. Introduction: An Archaeology of Media Archaeology 1 Erkki Huhtamo and Jussi Parikka
Part ONE. Engines of/in the Imaginary 25
2. Dismantling the Fairy Engine: Media Archaeology as Topos Study 27
Erkki Huhtamo
3. On the Archaeology of Imaginary Media 48 Eric Kluitenberg
4. On the Origins of the Origins of the Influencing Machine 70 Jeffrey Sconce
5. Freud and the Technical Media: The Enduring Magic of
the Wunderblock 95 Thomas Elsaesser
Part TWO. (Inter)facing Media 119
6. The “Baby Talkie,” Domestic Media, and the Japanese Modern 123 Machiko Kusahara
7. The Observer’s Dilemma: To Touch or Not to Touch 148 Wanda Strauven
8. The Game Player’s Duty: The User as the Gestalt of the Ports 164 Claus Pias
9. The Enduring Ephemeral, or The Future Is a Memory 184 Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
Part III: Between Analogue and Digital 207
10. Erased Dots and Rotten Dashes, or How to Wire Your
Head for a Preservation 211 Paul DeMarinis
11. Media Archaeography: Method and Machine versus
History and Narrative of Media 239 Wolfgang Ernst
12. Mapping Noise: Techniques and Tactics of Irregularities,
Interception, and Disturbance 256 Jussi Parikka
13. Objects of Our Affection: How Object Orientation Made
Computers a Medium 278 Casey Alt
14. Digital Media Archaeology: Interpreting Computational Processes 302 Noah Wardrip-Fruin
15. Afterword: Media Archaeology and Re-presencing the Past 323 Vivian Sobchack
Selected Bibliography 335 Contributors 343 Index 347
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