Early film history and multi-media: an archaeology of possible futures? / Thomas Elsaesser
Electricity made visible / Geoffrey Batchen
"Tones from out of nowhere": Rudolph Pfenninger and the archaeology of synthetic sound / Thomas Y. Levin
Memex revisited / Vannevar Bush
Out of file, out of mind / Cornelia Vismann
Dis/continuities: Does the archive become metaphorical in multi-media space? / Wolfgang Ernst
Breaking down: Godard's histories / Richard Dienst
Ordering law, judging history: deliberations on court TV / Lynne Joyrich
The style of sources: remarks on the theory and history of programming languages / Wolfgang Hagen
Science as open source process / Friedrich Kittler
Cold War networks, or, Kaiserstr. 2, Neubabelsberg / Friedrich Kittler
Protocol vs. institutionalization / Alexander R. Galloway
Reload: liveness, mobility, and the Web / Tara McPherson
Generation flash / Lev Manovich
Viruses are good for you / Julian Dibbell
The imaginary of the artificial: automata, models, machinics; on promiscuous modeling as precondition for poststructuralist ontology / Anders Michelsen
Information, crisis, catastrophe / Mary Ann Doane
The weird global media event and the tactical intellectual [version 3.0] / MacKenzie Wark
Imperceptible perceptions in our technological modernity / Arvind Rajagopal
Deep Europe: a history of the syndicate network / Geert Lovink
The cell phone and the crowd: messianic politics in the contemporary Philippines / Vicente L. Rafael
Cybertyping and the work of race in the age of digital reproduction / Lisa Nakamura
Network subjects, or, the ghost is the message / Nicholas Mirzeoff
Modes of digital identification: virtual technologies and webcam cultures / Ken Hillis
Hypertext Avant la lettre / Peter Krapp
Network fever / Mark Wigley
The demystifica-hic-tion of in-hic-formation / Thomas Keenan

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