Monday, November 26, 2012

new media, old media: a history and theory reader

edited by Wendy Chun & Thomas Keenan            New York, London: Routledge 2006

Introduction: Did somebody say new media? (chun)

p5 Treating knowledge-power as a grid, Foucault's archeology explores the ties between elements of knowledge and power.... Archaeology examines the enunciative functions of the "already said" and its relationship to the general archive, where the archive is "the system that governs the appearance of statements as unique events"....

Following Foucault, to pose the question of archaeology of multi-media or multi-media as archive is to question the relationship between multi-media and knowledge, multi-media and power.


the conflation of information and knowledge
information as commodity /power

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