This collection of essays highlights innovative work in the emerging field of media archaeology.

ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionBen Roberts and Mark GoodallPART 1: EXPERIMENTAL MEDIA ARCHAEOLOGY1 Media Archaeology as Laboratory for History Writing and Theory Making Wanda Strauven2 Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Epistemological and Methodological Reflections on Experiments with Historical Objects of Media Technologies Andreas Fickers and Annie van den Oever3 The Ghosts of Media Archaeology Mark Goodall4 (game)(code): re-playing program listings from 1980s British computer magazines Alison GazzardPART 2: MEDIA ARCHAEOLOGICAL THEORY5 Cinema, Motion, Energy, and Entropy Thomas Elsaesser6 Collector, Hoarder, Media Archaeologist: Walter Benjamin with Vivian Maier Peter Buse7 Media Archaeology and Critical Theory of Technology Ben RobertsPART 3: MEDIA ARCHAEOLOGY AT THE INTERFACE8 The Cube: A Cinema ArchaeologyAngela Piccini9 Inventing Pasts and Futures: Speculative Design and Media Archaeology Jussi ParikkaNotes on ContributorsIndex?