Sticky Media. Encoutners with Oil through Imaginary Media Archaeology

This paper investigates how media archaeology and the concept of deep time could be taken literally, by bringing authors of early media studies (McLuhan, Innis) together with contemporary eco-material approaches (Gabrys, Parikka) on the topic of oil. Following these conjunctions of media and oil the...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:8027c4ab7d2a427ea6f8c1c6f9904e492021-11-17T15:17:29ZSticky Media. Encoutners with Oil through Imaginary Media Archaeology10.7275/dnns-wa812380-6109https://doaj.org/article/8027c4ab7d2a427ea6f8c1c6f9904e492018-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://scholarworks.umass.edu/cpo/vol7/iss1/3/https://doaj.org/toc/2380-6109This paper investigates how media archaeology and the concept of deep time could be taken literally, by bringing authors of early media studies (McLuhan, Innis) together with contemporary eco-material approaches (Gabrys, Parikka) on the topic of oil. Following these conjunctions of media and oil the article first traces certain prevailing narrations in media studies, before turning to the understanding of oil beyond its industrial uses and its catastrophic dimensions in the petro-imaginary of Satin Island by Tom McCarthy. In terms of imaginary media archeology, petro-imaginary provides a conceptual space in which a new relation of images of material reality to media technologies can be drafted, tested, and reviewed. By proposing the figure of sticky media, in contrast to the prevailing metaphors of fluidity, I emphasize their material moments.Naomie GramlichScholarWorks @ UMass AmherstarticleLanguage and LiteraturePCommunication. Mass mediaP87-96ENcommunication +1, Vol 7, Iss 1 (2018)
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Naomie Gramlich
Sticky Media. Encoutners with Oil through Imaginary Media Archaeology
description This paper investigates how media archaeology and the concept of deep time could be taken literally, by bringing authors of early media studies (McLuhan, Innis) together with contemporary eco-material approaches (Gabrys, Parikka) on the topic of oil. Following these conjunctions of media and oil the article first traces certain prevailing narrations in media studies, before turning to the understanding of oil beyond its industrial uses and its catastrophic dimensions in the petro-imaginary of Satin Island by Tom McCarthy. In terms of imaginary media archeology, petro-imaginary provides a conceptual space in which a new relation of images of material reality to media technologies can be drafted, tested, and reviewed. By proposing the figure of sticky media, in contrast to the prevailing metaphors of fluidity, I emphasize their material moments.
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title Sticky Media. Encoutners with Oil through Imaginary Media Archaeology
title_short Sticky Media. Encoutners with Oil through Imaginary Media Archaeology
title_full Sticky Media. Encoutners with Oil through Imaginary Media Archaeology
title_fullStr Sticky Media. Encoutners with Oil through Imaginary Media Archaeology
title_full_unstemmed Sticky Media. Encoutners with Oil through Imaginary Media Archaeology
title_sort sticky media. encoutners with oil through imaginary media archaeology
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