Follow-Up to Class Discussion – Media and Materiality 2012

Some Marginalia

April 18, 2012 Edmund Kasubinski Follow-Up to Class Discussion

I meant to post this after our class the other day about “books.” I expressed a little disgust on the idea of a “comments section”

Gitelman + Kirschenbaum

March 6, 2012 shannon Follow-Up to Class Discussion

Gitelman Models of history Media’s implication in history(5) “media are themselves denizens of the past…[and] are also historical because they are functionally integral to a

Your Life, Uploaded

March 4, 2012 astolarz Follow-Up to Class Discussion

As I was looking for the PowerPoint presentation discussed by Kirschenbaum in “Mechanisms” (100) about the MyLifeBits , I stumbled upon the Total Recall blog: a living archive of

Stuff on Things

February 24, 2012 shannon Follow-Up to Class Discussion

Since we didn’t have much opportunity in our last class to discuss Brown’s “Thing Theory,” I thought I’d post a few potentially useful resources that

“Abandoned” Interactive Fiction

February 9, 2012 Edmund Kasubinski Follow-Up to Class Discussion

Deep in the catacombs of “abandonware,” old computer programs that run on obsolete systems and/or have unclear copyright ownership, you will come across a genre

Apropos of Last Night’s Discussion of Textual Materiality:

February 7, 2012 shannon Follow-Up to Class Discussion

via DanCohen.org (Cohen is Associate Professor in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University and the Director of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media):