Deep Time of the Media: Toward an Archaeology of Hearing and Seeing by Technical Means
Deep Time of the Media takes us on an archaeological quest into the hidden layers of media development — dynamic moments of intense activity in media design and construction that have been largely ignored in the historical-media archaeological record. 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 — fractures in the predictable — that help...
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A quest to find something new by excavating the "deep time" of media's development—not by simply looking at new media's historic forerunners, but by connecting models, machines, technologies, and accidents that have until now remained separated.
Foreword Timothy Druckrey viiAcknowledgments xiiiIntroduction: The Idea of a Deep Time of the Media 1Fortuitous Finds Instead of Searching in Vain: Methodological Borrowings and Affinities for an Anarchaeology of Seeing and Hearing by Technical Means 13Attraction and Repulsion: Empedocles 39Magic and Experiment: Giovan Battista Della Porta 57Light and Shadow-Consonance and Dissonance: Athanasius Kircher 101Electrification, Tele-Writing, Seeing Close Up: Johann Wilhelm Ritter, Joseph Chudy, and Jan Evangelista Purkyne 159The Discovery of a PIT, a Camera Obscura of Iniquity: Cesare Lombroso 205The Economy of Time: Aleksej Kapitanovich Gastev 227Conclusions: Including a Proposal for the Cartography of Media Anarchaeology 255Notes 281Bibliography 322Credits 363Index 365
\ From the Publisher"Siegfried Zielinski has combed the technical history of the media from cave painting to the World Wide Web and arrived at some surprising new insights... A brilliant study on the subtext of European history of technology and science." Frank Hartmann Falter\ \
