Memory in Motion: Archives, Technology, and the Social

Open Access Published by Amsterdam University Press 2016

Memory in Motion

Archives, Technology, and the Social

Edited by: Ina Blom , Trond Lundemo and Eivind Røssaak

In the series Recursions

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048532063

Overview
Contents

About this book

This collection offers a set of essays that discuss the new technology of memory from a variety of perspectives that explicitly investigate their impact on the very concept of the social.

Author / Editor information

Blom Ina :

Ina Blom is a Professor at the Department of Philosopy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas at the University of Oslo and Visiting Professor at the Dept. of Art History, University of Chicago. She is the author of On The Style Site. Art, Sociality, and Media Culture (2007) and The Autobiography of Video. The Life and Times of a Memory Technology (2016).Lundemo Trond :

Trond Lundemo is Associate Professor in Cinema Studies at The Department of Media Studies, Stockholm University. He is co-editor of The Location of History, vol. 3: Memory, Media and Materiality (in Swedish, 2016) and co-editor of the book series Film Theory in Media History at Amsterdam University Press.Røssaak Eivind :

Eivind Røssaak is Associate Professor in the Research Department at the National Library of Norway and Visiting Professor at Nordland College of Cinema and the Arts. He is the editor of The Archive in Motion (2010) and Between Stillness and Motion (2011) and the author of The Still/Moving Image: Cinema and the Arts (2010).

Reviews

"[Memory in Motion] is a highly valuable contribution to the increasing exchanges between memory studies, cultural studies, digital humanities and media archeology." - Reviewed in Leonardo by Jan Baetens, June 2017

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Open Access Download PDF	5
Acknowledgements Ina Blom, Trond Lundemo and Eivind Røssaak Open Access Download PDF	9
Introduction. Rethinking Social Memory: Archives, Technology, and the Social Ina Blom Open Access Download PDF	11
Oralities
Chapter One. ‘Electrified Voices’: Non-Human Agencies of Socio‑Cultural Memory Wolfgang Ernst Open Access Download PDF	41
Chapter Two. Can Languages be Saved? Linguistic Heritage and the Moving Archive Sónia Matos Open Access Download PDF	61
Softwares
Chapter Three. Big Diff, Granularity, Incoherence, and Production in the Github Software Repository Matthew Fuller, Andrew Goffey, Adrian Mackenzie, Richard Mills and Stuart Sharples Open Access Download PDF	87
Chapter Four. The Post-Archival Constellation: The Archive under the Technical Conditions of Computational Media David M. Berry Open Access Download PDF	103
Lives
Chapter Five. Planetary Goodbyes: Post-History and Future Memories of an Ecological Past Jussi Parikka Open Access Download PDF	129
Chapter Six. Video Water, Video Life, Videosociality Ina Blom Open Access Download PDF	153
Chapter Seven. FileLife: Constant, Kurenniemi, and the Question of Living Archives Eivind Røssaak Open Access Download PDF	183
Images
Chapter Eight. Mapping the World: Les Archives de la Planète and the Mobilization of Memory Trond Lundemo Open Access Download PDF	213
Chapter Nine. Stills from a Film That Was Never Made: Cinema, Gesture, Memory Pasi Väliaho Open Access Download PDF	237
Chapter Ten. The Archival Promise of the Biometric Passport Liv Hausken Open Access Download PDF	257
Socialities
Chapter Eleven. A Neomonadology of Social (Memory) Production Tiziana Terranova Open Access Download PDF	287
Chapter Twelve. On the Synthesis of Social Memories Yuk Hui Open Access Download PDF	307
Contributors Open Access Download PDF	327
Name index Open Access Download PDF	329

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Language: English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 332
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 39
- Other: 39 halftones, 4 line drawings
Keywords: Archive theory; social memory studies; digital technologies; media archaeology; media ecology

eBook

Published: November 1, 2016
ISBN: 9789048532063