Stirrings in the Archives: Order from Disorder

Stirrings in the Archives: Order from Disorder

by Adam Siegel (Translator), Adam Siegel (Translator), Wolfgang Ernst (Author)

Synopsis

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. Stirrings in the Archives: Order from Disorder is the long-awaited English translation of this seminal work exploring cultural heritage before the archives, throughout history, and from today into the future.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 108
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 16 Aug 2015

ISBN 10: 1442253959
ISBN 13: 9781442253957

Media 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 Bio
Wolfgang Ernst (born 1959) is a German cultural and media historian. Educated at the universities of Koeln, London, and Bochum, he is Professor for Media Theory and Media Studies at Humboldt Universitat. His works include _Das Rumoren der Archive. Ordnung aus Unordnung_ (2002), _Im Namen von Geschichte. Sammeln - Speichern - (Er-)Zahlen_ (2003_, _Das Gesetz des Gedachtnisses. Medien und Archive am Ende (des 20. Jahrhunderts)_ (2007), and _Gleichursprunglichkeit. 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.