Deep Time of Media Infrastructure

In this chapter of the book Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructures, I rethink urban history as a history of communication infrastructures. Blending media archaeology and archaeology proper, I consider cities as sites of sonic mediation, via radio and sound waves, as substrates for...

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Main Author: Mattern, Shannon (author)
Format: article
Language:Spanish
Published: 2019
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Online Access:https://revistas.ort.edu.uy/inmediaciones-de-la-comunicacion/article/view/2927
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11968/4133
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11968/4133
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Summary:In this chapter of the book Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructures, I rethink urban history as a history of communication infrastructures. Blending media archaeology and archaeology proper, I consider cities as sites of sonic mediation, via radio and sound waves, as substrates for inscription. And I outline historiographic and methodological approaches that can help us to think about mediacities, urban history, and infrastructural history in tandem.