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media archaeology

noun

  1. a diverse range of critical, iconoclastic, and non-linear approaches to researching the historical development of media technologies and the history of ideas about them
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noun

  1. A field that attempts to understand new and emerging media through close examination of the past.

    “The history of media archaeology has been a history of discourse-oriented analysis in the sense of Foucault. However, it was Friedrich Kittler, the intellectual father of media archaeology, who inspired a focus on the materiality of the medium from the early 1980s onwards, one of his aims being to lay bare the epistemological structure underpinning studies in the humanities.”