Media in Transition 6: stone and papyrus, storage and transmission
What are the implications of the tension between storage and transmission for education, for individual and national identities, for notions of what is public and what is private?
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MIT Building E51 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA, United States
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Film Preservation in the Age of Digitality
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MA, United StatesMuch of the general public in fact believes that every film and television program ever made has already been digitized and is now available in Netflix’s catalog. That is hardly the case.
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Gregory Heyworth: “Textual Science and the Future of the Past”
MIT Building 3, Room 133 33 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesTextual Science, as Gregory Heyworth argues, is poised to change the established order of things. With images of recovered works, many previously unseen, this talk will chart the way ahead in theory and praxis.
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Media and Memory at the Vidéothèque de Paris
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MA, United StatesCatherine E. Clark on how "the utopian rhetoric that accompanied the Vidéothèque’s creation helps illuminate and call into question the utopian promises of the much more recent revolution in digital history."
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The Battle of Algiers as Ghost Archive: Specters of a Muslim International
MIT Building 4, Room 270 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MA, United StatesSohail Daulatzai on The Battle of Algiers' "competing narratives, a battleground over the meaning and memory of decolonization and Western power, and a site for challenging the current imperial consensus."
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Bernard Geoghegan, “Learning to Code: From Information Theory to French Theory”
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesA new history of the ambitions behind the rise of “theory” in the US humanities, and the obscure ties of that endeavor to Progressive Era technocracy, US foundations, and the growing prestige of technology and engineering in 20th century life.