Materials for Discussion Today

• Focal Readings
• Timelines
• Daniel Rosenberg and Anthony Grafton, Cartographies of Time: A History of the Timeline (2013)
• Synopsis, quotations, and illustrations from the book from a Williams College 2011 course, "THEA 228: The Cartographic Imagination".
• Archives
• Luciana Duranti, "Archives as a Place" (1996)
• Kate Theimer, "Archives in Context and as Context" (2012)
• Yuk Hui, "Archivist Manifesto" (2013)
• Media Archaeology
• Friedrich A. Kittler, from Gramophone, Film, Typewriter (1986, trans. 1999), "Preface" and "Introduction" [PDF]
• Wolfgang Ernst, from Digital Memory and the Archive [PDF] (ed. Jussi Parikka, 2013). Read the two following essays:
  
• "Archives in Transition: Dynamic Media Memories"
• "Experimenting with Media Temporality: Pythagoras, Hertz, Turing"
• Jussi Parikka, from What is Media Archaeology (2012), "Archive Dynamics: Software Culture and Digital Heritage" (course password required)
• Lisa Gitelman, from Always Already New: Media, History, and the Data of Culture (2006), "Introduction: Media as Historical Subjects" (course password required)
• Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, from Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination (2008), "'Every Contact Leaves a Trace': Storage, Inscription, and Computer Forensics," pp. 36-50 (course password required)

• Other Readings
• Alan Liu, "Imagining the New Media Encounter" (2008)