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Files: Law and Media Technology
Cornelia Vismann
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Description for Files: Law and Media Technology
Paperback. The reign of paper files would seem to be over once files are reduced to the status of icons on computer screens, but Vismann's book, which examines the impact of the file on Western institutions throughout history, shows how the creation of order in medieval and early modern administrations makes its returns in computer architecture. Translator(s): Winthrop-Young, Geoffrey. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 216 pages, 13 illustrations. BIC Classification: LAB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 336.
Quod non est in actis, non est in mundo. (What is not on file is not in the world.) Once files are reduced to the status of stylized icons on computer screens, the reign of paper files appears to be over. With the epoch of files coming to an end, we are free to examine its fundamental influence on Western institutions. From a media-theoretical point of view, subject, state, and law reveal themselves to be effects of specific record-keeping and filing practices. Files are not simply administrative tools; they mediate and process legal systems. The genealogy of the law described ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804751513
SKU
V9780804751513
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About Cornelia Vismann
Cornelia Vismann is currently a researcher at the Max-Planck-Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. She worked for many years previously as a lawyer in Berlin and the former East Berlin.
Reviews for Files: Law and Media Technology
"Cornelia Vismann's extraordinary Files . . . presents a methodology for addressing the relationship between media technologies and politics that is often absent, or at least shadowy, in materialist media theory of the Kittlerian style."—Seb Franklin, The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory "Vismann's erudite and attentive analysis shows clear awareness of the danger of both a perfect order ... Read more