Technológos in Being: Radical Media Archaeology and the Computational Machine

Title Page\nCopyright Page\nContents\nList of figures\nPreface: The Structure of Investigating Technológos\nAcknowledgements\nChapter 1: Introduction: Radical media archaeology\nPart One: Radical media archaeology as a method of media science, and as techno-logical practice\n	Chapter 2: Towards a more radical understanding of media as technology and logotechnics\n		Rethinking ‘technology’ beyond Heidegger\n		Techno-mathematical implementations: Disembodied lógos\n		Arché and lógos of electronic media\n		Materialist media archaeology\n		Radical technoanalysis: Theory and method\n	Chapter 3:  The hands of lógos: ‘Digitality’, literally\n		Relieving the optical signal from human subjectivity: Case study photography\n		Beyond anthropocentrism in the ‘hands on media’ approach: ‘Manipulation’, and technology\n		Typewriting: The de-coupled relation of the hand to writing\n		When lógos encounters the machine: The discretizing keyboard\n		Digitality instead of the whole ‘hand’: Fingers and numbers\n	Chapter 4: Human performance vs. technical operation: Mechanically informed music from the past\n		Automatic invariance: Baroque music machines\n		Audio-technical ‘archiving’ of musical presence\n		Phono-graphical analysis vs. hermeneutic interpretation\n		Techno-logical tradition of media music\n	Chapter 5: (Re)enactments of technológos\n		Analytic media diagrammatics\n		Techno-scenic knowledge: Media theatre\n		Re-enacting the technological past\n		Manual experimentation of time with machines\n		Symbolical re-enactment of machines: From Yugo back to Babbage\n	Chapter 6: Technical logification of the optical image\n		Escaping the control of lógos: Video as a material memory medium\n		Digital logification of the video image\n		Video compression\n		Human and/or machine ‘vision’: Computer graphics\n		Is there a lógos within technical images? Machine vision\n	Chapter 7: Discretely addressing media artefacts\n		‘Post-digital’ nostalgia for materiality? Towards a redefinition of the ‘archaeological’ artefact\n		Archaeologizing the present: The alógos of video noise, and digital sound compression\n		Object and agency of media archaeology: The Restauration of early television recordings\n		‘E.T.’ as topic of computer (game) archaeology, and microprocessor ageing\n		Really ‘forensic’ media archivology: Reading a ROM\nPart Two: Radical media archaeology in close alliance with operative logotechnics (computing)\n	Chapter 8: Technológos from action: The matter of computation and the (with)inhuman symbolic machine\n		Machine operations: Redefining the ‘human’ from within\n		Mechanization of the calculating mind: Karsakov 1832\n		The calculating human as a computational machine ‘it’self\n		Where algorithmic reasoning actually takes place: Techno-mathematical computing\n		Algorithmic computation in media archaeological perspective\n		How close can computing come to the material world?\n	Chapter 9: Time-discrete computing as articulation of technológos\n		Listening to computational time\n		Challenging the ‘time’ axis: Computation\n		Lógos in technical being: Actual computing\n		Counting (and) time\n		Time-discrete technical procedures: Cinematography, computing\n	Chapter 10: A new kind of ‘love for lógos’: Material media philology as a more radical understanding of software\n		Media philology as critical enquiry of digital humanities practice\n		Operative encounters of lógos and matter: Algorithms as ‘software’\n		The unexpected behaviour of code\n		‘Text’ in the age of computer-based literacy: Software\n		Second-order lógos? The literary code comment\n		Digital anachronism\n	Chapter 11: Experimental technológos: Humanities of the digital\n		‘Digital humanities’ avant la Lettre: Archaeology proper and techno-mathematical reason\n		Counting by numbers instead of story-telling: The lógos of Markov chains in information aesthetics\n		‘Hermeneutics’ after Shannon: Algorithmic experimentation of text and speech\n		Rooting digital humanities: Techno-mathematics\n		New methods of content retrieval: Algorithmic data identification\n		‘Active archives’\n		The self-organizing archive\n		Media archivology: Kittler’s case\n	Chapter 12: Informatized matter: Computing for and as architecture\n		Architectural matter and informational lógos\n		The cybernetization of architecture\n		Architecture in terms of information aesthetics\n		Opening/closing ‘gates’: The flip-flop\n		Towards an archaeology of digital architectures from within\n		Algorithmicized architectures\n		Architecturally embedded lógos vs. autonomous algorithmic thought\n		Computational vs. computing ‘architectures’\n		Resubstantiation of code into matter: 3D printing\n	Chapter 13: There is no ‘memory’ for technológos: Digital storage beyond the ‘memory’ metaphor, and its return in/as machine learning\n		Only in quotation marks: Digital ‘memory’ from a technological view\n		Not yet memory, or ‘memory’ no more? Intermediary storage, delay lines\n		Neural ‘memory’, reformulated in technical terms\n		The return of ‘memory’ in artificial intelligence\n		A media archaeological prototype of machine learning: The ‘perceptron’\n		Human and/or nonhuman sorting of images by association: Pockets Full of Memories\n	Chapter 14: Against metaphysics in artificial intelligence: A reminder of its technological ground\n		The neocybernetic model and its electro-technical a priori\n		‘From’ machine analysis ‘to’ statistical AI? Neural nets and/or the algorithmic approach to intelligence\n		How ‘deep’ is machine intelligence? ‘Emergent’ artificial knowledge and the metaphysical risk\n		When the human voice is revealed as technológos: The anthropomorphic allure of machine ‘learning’\n	Chapter 15: Preliminary conclusions from the question concerning technológos\n		Arché-lógos, technically revealed from matter itself\n		Does technológos still matter? Discussing the limits of technological analysis\n		Technológos within the Anthropocene\n		For a techno-logically renewed media materialism\nReferences\nIndex