New Media, Old Media

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun is Assistant Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. Thomas W.Keenan is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Human Rights Project at Bard College. He is author of Fables of Responsibility: Aberrations andPredicaments in Ethics and Politics, and coeditor of Paulde Man's Wartime Journalism, 1939-1943 and Responses: OnPaul de Man's Wartime Journalism.

Introduction: Did Somebody Say New Media? Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

Part I: The Archaeology of New Media

1. Early Film History and Multi-Media: An Archaeology of Possible Futures? Thomas Elsaesser

2. Electricity Made Visible, Geoffrey Batchen

3. "Tones from out of Nowhere": Rudolph Pfenninger and the Archaeology of Synthetic Sound, Thomas Y. Levin

Part II: Archives

4. Memex Revisited, Vannevar Bush

5. Out of File, Out of Mind, Cornelia Vismann

6. Dis/continuities: Does the Archive Become Metephorical in Multi-Media Space? Wolfgang Ernst

7. Breaking Down: Godard's Histories, Richard Dienst

8. Ordering Law, Judging History: Deliberations on Court TV, Lynne Joyrich

Part III: Power-Code

9. The Style of Sources: Remarks on the Theory and History of Programming, Wolfgang Hagen

10. Science as Open Source Process, Friedrich Kittler

11. Cold War Networks or Kaiserstr. 2, Neubabelsberg, Friedrich Kittler

12. Protocol vs. Institutionalizaion, Alexander R. Galloway

13. Reload: Liveness, Mobility, and the Web, Tara McPherson

14. Generation Flash, Lev Manovich

15. Viruses Are Good for You, Julian Dibbell

16. The Imaginary of the Artificial: Automata, Models, Machinics--On Promiscuous Modeling as Precondition for Poststructuralist Ontology, Anders Michelsen

Part IV: Network Events

17. Information, Crisis, Catastrophe, Mary Ann Doane

18. The Weird Global Media Event and the Tactical Intellectural [version 3.0], McKenzie Wark

19. Imperceptible Perceptions in our Technological Modernity, Arvind Rajagopal

20. Deep Europe: A History of the Syndicate Network, Geert Lovink

21. The Cell Phone and the Crowd: Messianic Politics in the Contemporary Philippines, Vicente L. Rafael

Part V: Theorizing "New" Media

22. Cybertyping and the Work of Race in the Age of Digital Reproduction, Lisa Nakamura

23. Network Subjects: or, The Ghost is the Message, Nicholas Mirzoeff

24. Modes of Digital Identification: Virtual Technologies and Webcam Cultures, Ken Hillis

25. Hypertext Avant La Lettre, Peter Krapp

26. Network Fever, Mark Wigley

Afterword: The Demystifica-hic-tion of In-hic-formation, Thomas Keenan