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Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction. Generators of Surprise: Diverse Media Thinking
I. Provocations
1. History as Entertainment and Provocation: The TV Series Holocaust in West Germany
2. Media Archaeology: Searching for Different Orders of Envisioning
3. Seven Items on the Net
4. Toward a Dramaturgy of Differences
5. From Territories to Intervals: Some Preliminary Thoughts on the Economy of Time/the Time
6. On the Difficulty to Think Twofold in One
with Nils Röller
7. The Art of Design: (Manifesto) On the State of Affairs and Their Agility
8. “Too Many Images!—We Have to React”: Theses toward an Apparatical Prosthesis for Seeing—in the Context of Godard’s Histoire(s) du Cinéma
II. Particular Archaeologies
9. The Audiovisual Time Machine: Concluding Theses on the Cultural Technique of the Video Recorder
10. War and Media: Marginalia of a Genealogy, in Legends and Images
11. Theologi electrici: A Few Passages
12. Historic Modes of the Audiovisual Apparatus
13. “TO ALL!” The Struggle of the German Workers Radio Movement 1918–1933
14. Urban Music Box, Urban Hearing: Avraamov’s Symphony of Sirens in Baku and Moscow 1922/23—A Media-Archaeological Miniature
15. How One Sees
16. Lüology, Techno-Souls, Artificial Paradises: Fragments of an An-Archaeology of Sound Arts
17. Designing and Revealing: Some Aspects of a Genealogy of Projection
18. Allah’s Automata: Where Ancient Oriental Learning Intersects with Early Modern Europe; A Media-Archaeological Miniature by Way of Introduction
Publication History
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