“and I wanted to add: I think [techno-fetishism] technological specificity is crucial. there's an insistent materialism to it. and also a persistent depth model (we have to peel back the layers to dig down to the real of media) that continues to trouble me. what whkc said about how it's structurally parallel to its object of study (software/programming) in a totally overdetermined way.

anyway, it was just funny today, when, in this class called "media archaeology," I asked "what is media archaeology?" and everybody just looked at each other and laughed.”

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