Index

Foreword by Timothy Druckrey                                 VII

Acknowledgments                                             XIII

1 The idea of a deep time of the media                         1

2 Fortuitous finds instead of searching in vain: 
  methodological borrowings and affinities for an 
  anarchaeology of seeing and hearing by technical 
  means                                                       13
 
3 Attraction and repulsion: Empedocles                        39

4 Magic and experiment: Giovan Battista Della Porta           57

5 Light and shadow-consonance and dissonance: 
  Athanasius Kircher                                         101

6 Electrification, tele-writing, seeing close up: 
  Johann Wilhelm Ritter, Joseph Chudy, and Jan 
  Evangelista Purkynĕ                                        159

7 The discovery of a pit, a camera obscura of iniquity: 
  Cesare Lombroso                                            205

8 The economy of time: Aleksej Kapitanovich Gastev           227

9 Conclusions: Including a proposal for the 
  cartography of media anarchaeology.                        255

Notes                                                        281

Bibliography                                                 322

Credits                                                      363

Index                                                        365