Negative Media: Erasure and the Limits of Retention - Couverture souple

Klik, Ella

 
9781503645264: Negative Media: Erasure and the Limits of Retention
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1503645266 ISBN 13 : 9781503645264
Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2026

Synopsis

In a world inundated by an endless proliferation of texts, images, and data, the tension between the human desire to preserve and the economic incentive to retain collides with the finite nature of storage and its attendant costs. The impulse to keep everything inevitably confronts material constraints, compelling a reckoning with erasure as a necessity that enables ongoing creation. As this book reveals, such considerations are far from unique to the digital age.

Spanning early analog sound recordings to contemporary debates about digital cloud solutions, Negative Media proposes that acts of removal, cutting, deletion, and effacement shape the invention and use of popular storage technologies from the 19th century to the present. Ella Klik invites readers to reconsider how recording mechanisms operate, arguing that negation is not a design flaw but a process intentionally woven into the very fabric of these systems. Through engaging stories, including the accidental deletion of the Apollo 11 moon landing tapes, the book traces a genealogy of undoing that reframes our understanding of media's lifecycle, from production to managing scarcity and abundance. Rather than privileging long-term retention as the primary framework for analysis, Klik navigates through media histories and theories to foreground reuse at a moment where prevailing narratives insist--perhaps too boldly--that nothing can ever truly disappear from the internet.

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À propos de l'auteur

Ella Klik is an assistant professor in the graduate program of Hermeneutics & Culture at Bar-Ilan University.

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Éditeur
Stanford University Press
Date d'édition
2026
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1503645266
ISBN 13 
9781503645264
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
224
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9781503639768: Negative Media: Erasure and the Limits of Retention

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ISBN 10 :  1503639762 ISBN 13 :  9781503639768
Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2026
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