New Materialism Meets Fabrication: A Methodology for Media History
Jentery Sayers and Tiffany Chan
UVic English | MLab
@jenterysayers | @tiffchan29
University of Arizona | 12 May 2016
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Research supported by SSHRC, CFI, and BCKDF
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Prototyping the Past
1) Demands methods and perspectives from across disciplines
2) Is not always futurist, nor restricted to forecasting
3) 3-D media are not more persuasive than 2-D media
4) Direct access to physical materials neither resolves absence nor guarantees certainty
Prototyping the Past
5) Resists nostalgia, glorification, or re-enactment
6) Is premised on not replicating history, what not to repeat
7) Tests suspicions by grounding them in fine-grained details
8) Recognizes how many aspects of the technologies we use to reproduce history exceed our control, access, and understanding
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Research supported by SSHRC, CFI, and BCKDF