Re: [-empyre-] archiving

[Ellen Fernandez-Sacco <fernande@evergreen.edu>]

Jon, where do such technopositivitst conceptions of unlimited progress lurk?
Can you say more? I ask because such concepts seem disproved outright when
the tiny percentages of what actually survives is known. Am thinking of the
downloadable files of early silent films archived on webpages, which are
themselves a fragment of what is extant of this production, another time
heralded as progress that arrived with wars.
Ellen




On 2/6/05 10:22 PM, "//jonCates" <joncates@criticalartware.net> wrote:

> On Feb 6, 2005, at 10:03 PM, Paul Koerbin wrote:
>>> Your suggestion about recording audio-visual content from the screen I
>>> don't think is daft. I seem to recall we contemplated this at one
>> stage,
>>> some years ago, with Real Media files but did not get very far with
>> it.
> 
> it is amazing to imagine this scenario of archiving new media onto
> older + older forms to reach .bak into the past in order to grasp
> greater + greater degrees of material stability for immaterial digital
> [works/projects/processes].  i love how this possibility complicates
> technopositivist conceptions of unlimited [progress/upward spirals]
> toward utopic states.
> 
> // jonCates
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