Deep Time of Media Infrastructure
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.18861/ic.2019.14.2.2927Keywords:
Media infrastructure, archaeology, urban history.Abstract
In this chapter of the book Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructures, I rethink urban history as a history of communication infrastructures. Blending media archaeology and archaeology proper, I consider cities as sites of sonic mediation, via radio and sound waves, as substrates for inscription. And I outline historiographic and methodological approaches that can help us to think about mediacities, urban history, and infrastructural history in tandem.Downloads
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