VCC400H5 Lecture 6: VCC 400 Nov 2 lecture
2 Aug 2016
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Media archaeology describes the non-discursive practices speci ed in the elements of the techno-cultural archive, without simply reducing the archive to the technical apparatuses archive= conditions of knowledge in a given historical time/ place. It is not that technology is something but that it does something and it does it in many places all at the same time: it produces aesthetic. Media determine our relationship to the past old media. The difference between all old media like the book and the computer lies in the simple evidence that books cannot be re programmed once printed. The computer is thus the true media archaeologist media technologies= external memory . Does the archive become metaphorical in multi-media space. Is the internet different from a library or museum: the internet is not a physical space, the space" of storage and the contents are both part of the medium, the internet has no single stable system of organization.
