Reading Materiality:
Structures and Infrastructures of Digital Media
Digital As Physical Artifact
Of course, an historic iPhone...
History
Or
Archeology?
The Digital Death
"No one and nothing living escapes entirely unaltered in the cyberpunk world."
Materiality as Infrastructure
“Begin with space, power, and the combination we call history. Then the cloud will follow.”
Regimes of Memory
"This is a field in which one does one’s work and it will be obsolete within 10 years."
-Steve Jobs
Thank you.
Cited Readings
- Matt Kirschenbaum - Mechanisms
- Tung-hui Hu - A Prehistory of the Cloud
- Paul N. Edwards - Cyberpunks in Cyberspace: The Politics of Subjectivity in the Computer Age (in The Cultures of Computing, Susan Leigh Star [Ed.])
- John Durham Peters - Proliferation and Obsolescence of the Historical Record in the Digital Era (in Cultures of Obsolescence, Babette B. Tischleder and Sarah Wasserman [Eds.])
Reading Materiality
By Heidi Dowding
Reading Materiality
Presentation to IDAH and Hastack fellows, February 9, 2016.
