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.

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• Introduction: Did Somebody Say New Media? Wendy Hui Kyong ChunPart I: The Archaeology of New Media1. Early Film History and Multi-Media: An Archaeology of Possible Futures? Thomas Elsaesser2. Electricity Made Visible, Geoffrey Batchen3. "Tones from out of Nowhere": Rudolph Pfenninger and the Archaeology of Synthetic Sound, Thomas Y. LevinPart II: Archives4. Memex Revisited, Vannevar Bush5. Out of File, Out of Mind, Cornelia Vismann6. Dis/continuities: Does the Archive Become Metephorical in Multi-Media Space? Wolfgang Ernst7. Breaking Down: Godard's Histories, Richard Dienst8. Ordering Law, Judging History: Deliberations on Court TV, Lynne JoyrichPart III: Power-Code9. The Style of Sources: Remarks on the Theory and History of Programming, Wolfgang Hagen10. Science as Open Source Process, Friedrich Kittler11. Cold War Networks or Kaiserstr. 2, Neubabelsberg, Friedrich Kittler12. Protocol vs. Institutionalizaion, Alexander R. Galloway13. Reload: Liveness, Mobility, and the Web, Tara McPherson14. Generation Flash, Lev Manovich15. Viruses Are Good for You, Julian Dibbell16. The Imaginary of the Artificial: Automata, Models, Machinics--On Promiscuous Modeling as Precondition for Poststructuralist Ontology, Anders MichelsenPart IV: Network Events17. Information, Crisis, Catastrophe, Mary Ann Doane18. The Weird Global Media Event and the Tactical Intellectural [version 3.0], McKenzie Wark19. Imperceptible Perceptions in our Technological Modernity, Arvind Rajagopal 20. Deep Europe: A History of the Syndicate Network, Geert Lovink21. The Cell Phone and the Crowd: Messianic Politics in the Contemporary Philippines, Vicente L. RafaelPart V: Theorizing "New" Media22. Cybertyping and the Work of Race in the Age of Digital Reproduction, Lisa Nakamura 23. Network Subjects: or, The Ghost is the Message, Nicholas Mirzoeff24. Modes of Digital Identification: Virtual Technologies and Webcam Cultures, Ken Hillis25. Hypertext Avant La Lettre, Peter Krapp26. Network Fever, Mark WigleyAfterword: The Demystifica-hic-tion of In-hic-formation, Thomas Keenan