A requiem for the slaughtered words
I guess this is dead media (archaeology). I am doing farewells, and ritual slaughters of pieces of text that I need to cut from my new Media Archaeology and Digital Culture-manuscript (book forthcoming...
View ArticleA Manifesto for Digital Spectrology
Digital Spectrology is that dirty work of a cultural theorist who wants to understand how power works in the age of circuitry. Power circulates not only in human spaces of cities, organic bodies or...
View ArticleExhumation as Artistic Methodology
This is the short intro/intervention, from my second Transmediale 2012-talk on the Search for a Method-panel, organized by Timothy Druckrey, involving in addition to me Inke Arns, Siegfried Zielinski...
View ArticleWhat is Media Archaeology? — out now
It’s out, and gradually in book stores — What is Media Archaeology? (Polity), my new book about media archaeology (what a surprise)! It picks up where the edited volume Media Archaeology: Approaches,...
View ArticleZombie Media in Leonardo
The circuit bended and definitely (re)modified fruits of our collaboration with Garnet Hertz are out. True, “Zombie Media” has been circulating as an unborn living dead text for a longer while, ever...
View ArticleAn Interview with Martin Howse
This is another interview, and audio recording now available, that I did in Berlin in 2011. It is my chat with Martin Howse, of microresearch, and the project(s) together with Jonathan Kemp and Ryan...
View ArticleWhite Stripes to Zombie Media – A Theme Tune
Jack White might not agree but White Stripes’ “Rag & Bone” goes at the top of my list for the theme tune for zombie media and media archaeology. Listen to it. If you don’t want it, we’ll take it;...
View ArticleDowntime
When things break down, they are much more interesting than the gadgets that function, channel and regulate our lives. Broken things might poetically and with a Heideggerian hum say to reveal their...
View ArticleDeep Times and Geology of Media
“Yes I will” – “No, it is not something worthwhile”. I’ve been going back and forth for a while whether I will try to expand my ideas concerning “geology of media” into some sort of a book or not....
View ArticleOn Disobedient Electronics
Here’s a short manual to what design can – and perhaps often, should – be about: “how to punch Nazis in the face, minus the punching”. Garnet Hertz’ new critical design zine Disobedient Electronics is...
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