Index

Contents
Acknowledgements 7
Introduction 9
Ben Roberts and Mark Goodall
Part 1 Experimental Media Archaeology
1. Media Archaeology as Laboratory for History Writing and
Theory Making 23
Wanda Strauven
2. Doing Experimental Media Archaeology 45
Epistemological and Methodological Reflections on Experiments
with Historical Objects of Media Technologies
Andreas Fickers and Annie van den Oever
3. The Ghosts of Media Archaeology 69
Mark Goodall
4. (game)(code) 83
re-playing program listings from 1980s British computer magazines
Alison Gazzard
Part 2 Media Archaeological Theory
5. Cinema, Motion, Energy, and Entropy 107
Thomas Elsaesser
6. Collector, Hoarder, Media Archaeologist 135
Walter Benjamin with Vivian Maier
Peter Buse
7. Media Archaeology and Critical Theory of Technology 155
Ben Roberts
Part 3 Media Archaeology at the Interface
8. The Cube 177
A Cinema Archaeology
Angela Piccini
9. Inventing Pasts and Futures 205
Speculative Design and Media Archaeology
Jussi Parikka
Index 233