Böcker i Recursions-serien

This alternative study of archive and photography brings many types of image assemblages into view, always in relation to the regulated systems operating within the institutional milieu. The archive catalogue is presented as a critical tool for mapping image time, and the language of image description is seen as having a life, a worth and an aesthetic value of its own. Functioning at the intersection of text and image, the book combines media culture, archival techniques, and contemporary discourse on art and conceptual writing.

Medium, Messenger, Transmission uses the figure of the messenger as a key metaphor for the function of all transmission media.

This book examines the media history of swarm research and its significance to current socio-technological processes.

This collection of essays highlights innovative work in the emerging field of media archaeology.

This book is an original take on the history of communication theory and the cultural imaginary of communication understood through the notions of holy and the primitive.

This book draws on the fields of media archaeology, performance studies, and sound studies to explore the various modes of communication that can be uncovered from the long American folk revival.

This book examines radical media ecologies as guerrilla networks, emphasising the proximity and inseparability of radical media and political practices.

Ute Holl moves from anthropological and experimental cinema through nineteenth-century psychological laboratories, which she shows developed techniques for testing, measuring, and classifying the mind that can be seen as a prehistory of cinema

This collection offers a set of essays that discuss the new technology of memory from a variety of perspectives that explicitly investigate their impact on the very concept of the social.

This volume makes a major contribution to debates about New Materialism and the post-human turn.

Sonic Time Machines presents a striking new approach to theorising sound that investigates its split existence: as a temporal effect in a techno-cultural context and as a source of knowledge and information.

This collection of essays considers McLuhan's ground-breaking approach within a number of new contexts and explores the distinguishing features of his media theory.