...Paul Flaig This essay offers a feminist critique and correction of media archaeology. Media archaeology has developed over the last two decades as a historiographic response to increasingly advanced contemporary media technologies and, with them, changing accounts and archives of earlier analog...

... of Minnesota Press, 1993). 4. See, for example, Jussi Parikka, Digital Contagions: A Media Archaeology of Computer Viruses (New York: Lang, 2007); Tony D. Sampson, Virality: Contagion Theory in the Age of Networks (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012); and Michel...

... of this ontological distinction between “linguistic” and “plastic” representations that still reigns in aesthetic theory today? This problem is crucial for the study of contemporary mass culture and the newest forms of mass communication. Cinematic, televisual, and other electronic media have already...

...-Internet is supported by a 2016 Creative Capital grant in emerging fields. Jacob Gaboury is an assistant professor of digital media and visual culture in the Department of Cultural Analysis and Theory at Stony Brook University. His forthcoming book, Image Objects , offers an archaeology of early...

...Laura U. Marks Laura U. Marks , a theorist and curator of independent and experimental media, is the author of The Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000) and Touch: Sensuous Theory and Multisensory Media (Minneapolis...

... and inflexible terms. I felt that ideo- logical analysis had to advance into more socially specific terrains to answer pressing questions about other substantive variables involved in the spectator’s day-to-day commerce with the media. These problems led me to reorient my work methodologically...

... Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” Screen 16.3 (1975): 6–18. 4. For a concise sketch of the rise of “early cinema” as a critical concept, see Thomas Elsaesser, “General Introduction—Early Cinema: From Linear History to Mass Media Archaeology,” in Early Cinema: Space, Frame, Narrative, ed...

...Diana Pozo; Bonnie Ruberg; Chris Goetz Queer gamers have always been a part of video game culture. However, since the mid-2000s, the growing importance of fans to media consumption and the rise to prominence of the independent game industry have helped bring public recognition and awareness...

... for the future. How to Survive a Plague  approaches them as the felt, archaeologized layerings of the rote realities of the entire epidemic. It aims to account for the contexts and styles that were produced along with what was felt, the connections of all of memory to media technologies, the continuities...

... and Other Films by Lourdes Portillo (University of Texas Press, 2001). Fregoso teaches courses on human rights, culture, feminism, and media. Camera Obscura 2010 Carmen Durán and other factory workers display the products they assemble. From Maquilapolis, directed by Vicky Funari and Sergio de...

.... © 2012 by Camera Obscura 2012 Anne Kustritz is an assistant professor in media studies at the University of Amsterdam. Her teaching focuses on convergence culture and queer and feminist theory. Her work deals with creative fan communities and representational politics. She also serves...

..., and the classic psychedelic road movie Easy Rider (dir. Dennis Hopper, US, 1969). Johanna Gosse is a historian of modern and contemporary art specializing in experimental film and media. She is currently a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University...

...Julie Levin Russo This article returns to Sigmund Freud's and Jacques Lacan's theories of scopophilia to intervene in a pessimistic thread of new media criticism. By complicating doomsday scenarios, it unpacks the complexities of exhibitionism iterated as online self-display, including aspects...

... be considered a technology or a form of media — that is, not only a mechanism, but also a practi- cal or industrial art? Could race be not simply an object of repre- sentation and portrayal, of knowledge or truth, but also a tech- nique that one uses, even as one is used by it — a carefully crafted...

...Sharon Willis Sharon Willis is professor of French and visual and cultural studies at the University of Rochester, where she also directs the Film and Media Studies Program. A member of the Camera Obscura editorial collective, she is the author of Marguerite Duras: Writing on the Body...

...Katherine Fusco This article argues that Virtual 2Pac , created in 2012 by Digital Domain Media Group in collaboration with Dr. Dre for the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, represents an important twenty-first-century challenge to the relationships between performance and performer, film...

... and, I dare say, their problems made obvious. Deleuze's Foucault starts like many other studies of Foucault in arguing that a break occurs around the time of The Archaeology of Knowledge and The Order ofDiscourse (the early 1970s) in which a relatively de-institutionalized study of the internal...

... analyzing not only television but also online media and print and digital tabloids and the audience discourses involved with them. It further argues that transmediation incorporates gender and sexuality as well as media. In this, the body also functions as a medium, simultaneously grounded in materiality...

... and the Response to Radio, 1919-1924.” Mass Media between the Wars: Percep- tions of Cultural Tension, 191 8-1 941. Edited by Catherine L. Covert and John D. Stevens. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1984. 199-220. Cowie, Elizabeth. “Women, Representation and the Image.” Screen Education 23 (1977...

...Pooja Rangan This article investigates the contemporary phenomenon of “child media advocacy,” or the practice of “empowering” child subjects by providing them with media technologies as a means of self-representation. Tracing the genealogy of this practice to an older ethnographic tradition...