Deep time of the media : toward an archaeology of hearing and seeing by technical means /
Zielinski, Siegfried.
Deep time of the media : toward an archaeology of hearing and seeing by technical means / Siegfried Zielinski ; translated by Gloria Constance. - Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT, c2006. - xiv, 375 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm. - Electronic culture : history, theory, practice .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-361) and index.
Siegfried Zielinski argues that the history of the media does not proceed predictably from primitive tools to complex machinery. In 'Deep Time of the Media', he illuminates turning points of media history, which he calls fractures in the predictable, that help us see the new in the old.
Specialized.
Translated from the German.
9780262740326 (pbk.) : £12.95 026274032X (pbk.) : £12.95
Mass media--Historiography.
Mass media--Philosophy.
302.2'3'0722
Deep time of the media : toward an archaeology of hearing and seeing by technical means / Siegfried Zielinski ; translated by Gloria Constance. - Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT, c2006. - xiv, 375 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm. - Electronic culture : history, theory, practice .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-361) and index.
Siegfried Zielinski argues that the history of the media does not proceed predictably from primitive tools to complex machinery. In 'Deep Time of the Media', he illuminates turning points of media history, which he calls fractures in the predictable, that help us see the new in the old.
Specialized.
Translated from the German.
9780262740326 (pbk.) : £12.95 026274032X (pbk.) : £12.95
Mass media--Historiography.
Mass media--Philosophy.
302.2'3'0722