Podcasting inherits both the potentials for domination and for liberation in these previous forms of media, and it also contains new potentials by virtue of being a new medium. Podcasting is like radio, for example, but podcasts are importantly not radio programs. To uncover what exactly is (or could be) radical and pedagogical about podcasting, a…[Read more]

Bruno Latour’s seminal work We Have Never Been Modern urges us to consider what he calls “a parliament of things.” This notion of a “parliament of things” offers a new opportunity for the study of philosophy and anarchism. It is a start, but lacks a certain bravery and sense of adventure. In never being modern, we don’t find ourselves in the mids…[Read more]

According to Peter Sloterdijk, the 20th century begins in 1915, in Ypres, France, where German soldiers unleashed chlorine gas on their enemies. Weaponized air ushered in a new type of warfare, what Sloterdijk calls “atmoterrorism,” aimed not for enemy soldiers, but the atmosphere surrounding them. Ypres made explicit what was implicit, the atm…[Read more]

Technology does not just encompass tools for humans to master and use, but also cultural objects that play a role in one’s imagination of what is possible. Apocryphal media is a new taxonomic category within Media Archaeology that helps understand the impossible demands and expectations a user might make of a technology. Briefly, Apocryphal m…[Read more]

There is an unexplored synergy between the ways media archaeology and decolonial theory handle the notion of modernity. Both consider modernity as happening at different places and at different times: modernity is an event that is larger than Europe or the United States. Using this resonance, this article will make a media archaeological reading…[Read more]