Siegfried Zielinski: Deep Time of the Media: Toward an Archaeology of Hearing and Seeing by Technical Means (2002–) [EN, ES]

16 December 2014, dusan

“Siegfried Zielinski argues that the history of the media does not proceed predictably from primitive tools to complex machinery; in Deep Time of the Media, he illuminates turning points of media history—fractures in the predictable—that help us see the new in the old.

Drawing on original source materials, Zielinski explores the technology of devices for hearing and seeing through two thousand years of cultural and technological history. He discovers the contributions of ‘dreamers and modelers’ of media worlds, from the ancient Greek philosopher Empedocles and natural philosophers of the Renaissance and Baroque periods to Russian avant-gardists of the early twentieth century. ‘Media are spaces of action for constructed attempts to connect what is separated,’ Zielinski writes. He describes models and machines that make this connection: including a theater of mirrors in sixteenth-century Naples, an automaton for musical composition created by the seventeenth-century Jesuit Athanasius Kircher, and the eighteenth-century electrical tele-writing machine of Joseph Mazzolari, among others.”

Originally published as Archäologie der Medien: Zur Tiefenzeit des technischen Hörens und Sehens, Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg, 2002.

Foreword by Timothy Druckrey
Translated by Gloria Custance
Publisher MIT Press, 2006
ISBN 0262240491, 9780262240499
375 pages

Reviews: Simon Werrett (Technology and Culture, 2007), Digital Creativity (2007), Simone Natale (Canadian Journal of Communication, 2012), Stephanie Lam (n.d.).

Publisher (EN)
WorldCat (EN)

Deep Time of the Media: Toward an Archaeology of Hearing and Seeing by Technical Means (English, trans. Gloria Custance, 2006, 10 MB, updated on 2020-3-24)
Arqueología de los Medios. Hacia el tiempo profundo de la visión y la audición técnica (Spanish, trans. Alvaro Moreno-Hoffmann, 2011, 9 MB, added 2015-6-1 via Will, updated on 2020-3-24)


9 Responses to “Siegfried Zielinski: Deep Time of the Media: Toward an Archaeology of Hearing and Seeing by Technical Means (2002–) [EN, ES]”

  1. alvaro on August 23, 2018 8:52 pm

    Spanish book is down, can you please up load it again? thanks!!

  2. dusan on August 23, 2018 9:28 pm

    updated

  3. Cesar on September 4, 2018 9:08 pm

    Hi Dusan. Why do not tag(s) or Log(s) links work? It appears always the following message: “Not Found. Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn’t here”.

  4. dusan on September 6, 2018 5:57 am

    Hi Cesar, do you mean links to PDFs of this particular book? They should be working fine.

  5. Cesar on September 7, 2018 4:53 am

    No. If I go to “https://monoskop.org/Index”, after to click any “Log” link of the list, It appears always (in all cases) the following message: “Not Found. Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn’t here”. The “Log” tool was very usefull to identify books of specifics topics (I have used it before !).

  6. Cesar on September 13, 2018 10:51 pm

    Hi Dusan. If I go to “https://monoskop.org/Index”, after to click any “Log” link of the list, It appears always (in all cases) the following message: “Not Found. Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn’t here”. The “Log” tool was very usefull to identify books of specifics topics (I have used it before !). This happens also when I click on any “tag” link.

  7. dusan on September 20, 2018 4:34 pm

    Hi Cesar, thanks for letting us know, this is now fixed.

  8. judrn on March 23, 2020 10:16 pm

    Hi! the spanish link is down :( can you fix it? pleaaaase <3

  9. dusan on March 24, 2020 9:29 am

    Yes of course, here you go

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