Memory Bytes: History, Technology, and Digital CultureDuke University Press, 12 ม.ค. 2004 - 346 หน้า Digital culture is often characterized as radically breaking with past technologies, practices, and ideologies rather than as reflecting or incorporating them. Memory Bytes seeks to counter such ahistoricism, arguing for the need to understand digital culture—and its social, political, and ethical ramifications—in historical and philosophical context. Looking at a broad range of technologies, including photography, print and digital media, heat engines, stereographs, and medical imaging, the contributors present a number of different perspectives from which to reflect on the nature of media change. While foregrounding the challenges of drawing comparisons across varied media and eras, Memory Bytes explores how technologies have been integrated into society at different moments in time. These essays from scholars in the social sciences and humanities cover topics related to science and medicine, politics and war, mass communication, philosophy, film, photography, and art. Whether describing how the cultural and legal conflicts over player piano rolls prefigured controversies over the intellectual property status of digital technologies such as mp3 files; comparing the experiences of watching QuickTime movies to Joseph Cornell’s “boxed relic” sculptures of the 1930s and 1940s; or calling for a critical history of electricity from the Enlightenment to the present, Memory Bytes investigates the interplay of technology and culture. It relates the Information Age to larger and older political and cultural phenomena, analyzes how sensory effects have been technologically produced over time, considers how human subjectivity has been shaped by machines, and emphasizes the dependence of particular technologies on the material circumstances within which they were developed and used. Contributors. Judith Babbitts, Scott Curtis, Ronald E. Day, David Depew, Abraham Geil, Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi, Lisa Gitelman, N. Katherine Hayles, John Durham Peters, Lauren Rabinovitz, Laura Rigal, Vivian Sobchack, Thomas Swiss |
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... sense of memory as in its Latin root memor or " mindful . " The historical attitude of this volume accom- modates multiple lines of inquiry into the social integration of new technologies by describing material and economic ...
... sense.31 Quantified informa- tion does not , literally , make sense . It contains merely a syntax , not a semantics . To be afforded a more biologically realistic interpre- tation , genetic information had to be given a semantics , and ...
... sense organs . Never before had the lacks of the ear been so clearly revealed : its limited range of audibility , its micro- scopic ( rather than panoramic ) focus on the universe of sound , and the extremely fine quanta beyond which ...
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LAUREN RABINOVITZ AND ABRAHAM GEIL Introduction | 1 |
Benjamin Franklins New | 23 |
Machine | 47 |
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Memory Bytes: History, Technology, and Digital Culture Lauren Rabinovitz,Abraham Geil ชมบางส่วนของหนังสือ - 2004 |
Memory Bytes: History, Technology, and Digital Culture Lauren Rabinovitz,Abraham Geil ชมบางส่วนของหนังสือ - 2004 |