Overview

Like most of Wolfgang Ernst’s work, Das Rumoren der Archiv explored the concept of archival and media theory from a current cultural digital context. Ernst challenges the traditional perspective of the cultural heritage institution and how it relied on media for creating, storing and disseminating digital information. Archives have a place in a digital society, and the archivist’s role will be more increasingly vital in the future. As Ernst points out, his work will show a way out of the archive, away from the notion that the era of archive is coming to an end. Here is the long-awaited English translation of this seminal work exploring cultural heritage before the archives, throughout history, and from today into the future. Ernst work emphasized a need to recognize media as a method for capturing and preserving our collective cultural identity. It is vital that archivists promoted a greater awareness of how media technology augmented the creation, management, and dissemination of digital content.

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Author:   Wolfgang Ernst ,  Adam Siegel
Publisher:   Rowman & Littlefield
Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield
Dimensions:   Width: 16.10cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.304kg
ISBN:  

9781442253957

ISBN 10:   1442253959
Pages:   108
Publication Date:   14 August 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

"Chapter 1. The Inflation of the Archive Chapter 2. Before the Archive Chapter 3. Writing the Archive Transitively? Chapter 4. ""A New Archivist"": Foucault Chapter 5. The Archive as ""Submedial Space"" Chapter 6. The Gaps Are The Archive Chapter 7. Excercices de silence (Silence in the Archive) Chapter 8. Prosopopoetic Phantasms (Scenes from the Archives) Chapter 9. DRACULArchiv Chapter 10. Inverted Time: The Space of the Archive Chapter 11. Textuality of History? Archives and Literature Chapter 12. Faking the Archives Chapter 13. Archibiograffiti Chapter 14. The Mother of Archives: Rome Chapter 15. In History’s Arsenal: The Archival catechon Chapter 16. From Louis XIV to Big Brother: Monitoring Chapter 17. Historical Bodies Chapter 18. Collection and Dispersal: The Posthumous Chapter 19. Dedicated to the Archive? Jacques Derrida and (the) Paul de Man’s Case Chapter 20. ""We From the Archive"" Chapter 21. Book-enwald Chapter 22. The Mechanization of the Archive Chapter 23. Entropy: A Rubbish Theory of the Archive Chapter 24. In the End: Digital Anarchi(v)es Index About the Author"

Reviews

The publisher and the translator are to be credited with bringing Ernst's work to Anglophone attention... In short: if you found Foucault and co. worth reading, you'll enjoy this. Archives and Records: The Journal of the Archives and Records Association

Author Information

Wolfgang Ernst (born 1959) is a German cultural and media historian.  Educated at the universities of Köln, London, and Bochum, he is Professor for Media Theory and Media Studies at Humboldt Universität.   His works include _Das Rumoren der Archive. Ordnung aus Unordnung_ (2002), _Im Namen von Geschichte. Sammeln – Speichern – (Er-)Zählen_ (2003_, _Das Gesetz des Gedächtnisses. Medien und Archive am Ende (des 20. Jahrhunderts)_ (2007), and _Gleichursprünglichkeit. Zeitwesen und Zeitgegebenheit technischer Medien_, and _Chronopoetik. Zeitweisen und Zeitgaben technischer Medien_ (both 2012).  Adam Siegel is languages and literatures bibliographer at the University of California, Davis.  Educated at the Defense Language Institute, University of Minnesota, and University of California, Berkeley, his translations from the German and Russian include works by Hubert Fichte, Thomas Bernhard, and Viktor Shklovsky.  For his translation and archival research, he is the recipient of a number of awards, including a University of California Research Grant.

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