• 1

    On such »heterotopic« agencies see Michel Foucault, Des espaces autres [*1967],  in: Architecture. Mouvement, Continuité, no. 5, October 1984, page 46–49; on spatio-temporal »chronotopes« see the writings of Michail Bachtin.

  • 2

    Barry Truax, Acoustic Communication, Norwood, N. J.: Ablex, 1984, page 115.

  • 3

    For a similar approach, see Steve Goodman, The Ontology of Vibrational Force, in: same author, Sonic Warfare. Sound, Affect and the Ecology of Fear, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2009, page 81–84.

  • 4

    See Lev Manovich, Data Bank as Symbolic Form, in: same author, The Language of New Media, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2001; Victoria Vesna, Database Aesthetics. Art in the Age of Information Overflow, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007.

  • 5

    See Lev Manovich, Data Bank as Symbolic Form, in: same author, The Language of New Media, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2001; Victoria Vesna, Database Aesthetics. Art in the Age of Information Overflow, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007.

  • 6

    See Fritz Heider, Ding und Medium, in: Symposion, Vol. 1, No. 2 (1927), page 109–157 (transl. 1959 as Thing and Medium).

  • 7

    Allan Sekula, The Body & the Archive, in: October, Vol. 39 (1986), page 3–64 (58).

  • 8

    Michel Foucault, Archaeology of Knowledge [*Paris 1969], London/New York: Routledge Classics, 2002, »Introduction«, page 3–19 (7f).

  • 9

    Thomas Richards, Archive and Utopia, in: Representations 37, Winter 1992, page 104–135 (125).

  • 10

    Harold Innis, The Bias of Communication, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991.

  • 11

    Edmund Husserl, Vorlesungen zur Phänomenologie des inneren Zeitbewußtseins [*1928], 2nd ed., Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1980.

  • 12

    See Tjebbe van Tijen, We no longer collect the Carrier but the Information, interviewed by Geert Lovink, in: MediaMatic 8, No. 1/1994 (»The Storage Mania Issue«, translation: Jim Boekbinder).

  • 13

    Frank Kessler and Mikro Tobias Schäfer, Navigating YouTube: Constituting a Hybrid Information Management System, in: Pelle Snickars and Patrick Vonderau (eds.), The YouTube Reader, Stockholm: National Library of Sweden, 2009, page 275–292 (276).

  • 14

    As already expressed in Vannevar Bush, As We May Think, in: Atlantic Monthly, July 1945.

  • 15

    See Ekekhard Knörer, Trainingseffekte. Arbeiten mit YouTube und UbuWeb, in: Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft , Vol. 5, No. 2/2011, page 163–166.

  • 16

    See Wendy Chun, The Enduring Ephemeral, or The Future Is a Memory, in: Erkki Huhtamo and Jussi Parikka (eds.), Media Archaeology. Approaches, Applications, and Implications, Berkeley/Los Angeles/London: University of California Press, 2011, page 184–203.

  • 17

    See Walter Ong, Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word, London: Methuen, 1982.

  • 18

    See Maurizio Lazzarato, Videophilosophie, Berlin: b-books, 2002.

  • 19

    On the current »atemporal« cultural condition, see Simon Reynolds, Retromania. Pop Culture’s Addiction to its own Past, London: Faber & Faber, 2012, page 397.

  • 20

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_web (accessed Jan 20, 2010).

  • 21

    See Geert Lovink, Was uns wirklich krank macht, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, No. 140, June 21, 2010, page 27 (referring to media theorist Franco Berardi).

  • 22

    As declared in the thematic abstract of the festival Re-*. Recycling_Sampling_Jamming. Künstlerische Strategien der Gegenwart (Berlin, Akademie der Künste, February 26–28, 2009).

  • 23

    Oral communication to the author, Stockholm, May 19, 2009.

  • 24

    See Friedrich Kittler, Die Welt des Symbolischen – eine Welt der Maschine, in: same author, Draculas Vermächtnis. Technische Schriften, Leipzig: Reclam, 1991, page 58–80 (68), referring Jacques Lacan.

  • 25

    See Axel Roch, Claude E. Shannon, Spielzeug, Leben und die geheime Geschichte seiner Theorie der Information, Berlin: gegenstalt Verlag, 2009, page 112.

  • 26

    See Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Production of Presence. What Meaning Cannot Convey, Cambridge: Stanford University Press 2004.

  • 27

    See Rudolf Gschwind and Lukas Rotenthaler (interviewed by Ute Holl), Migration der Daten, Analyse der Bilder, Persistente Archive, in: Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft, Vol. 2, 1/2010, page 103–111 (104).

  • 28

    Hans-Joergen Marker, Data Conservation at a Traditional Data Archive, in: Edward Higgs (ed.), History and Electronic Artefacts, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998, page 294–303 (296).

  • 29

    Rick Prelinger, The Appearance of Archives, in: Pelle Snickars and Patrick Vonderau (eds.), The YouTube Reader, Stockholm: National Library of Sweden, 2009, page 268–274 (271).

  • 30

    See W. E., Das Rumoren der Archive, Berlin: Merve, 2002.