New Media

The Internet of 1854: symptomatic incoherence
Distilled Images: "intensely labored point of contact between the present and the past, a collision and an overlap of different times and formats" (124)
The last recently modified web page
[CERN & Tim Berners Lee]
What is the Web's temporality? ---- Publication, public & the Public Memory ---- Transfiguration of the symbolic.
Lev Manovich: "page as a basic unit of data organization".
Page & Document: "One is an issue of format, and the other is an issue of concern" (128)
History: putting narratives about events together, based on interpretation of the indexical survival (fragmentary) of the record and of the past.+ Errors: A common place for Internauts
Error: File not Found ---- Change itself is a paradoxically consistent feature of the WWW ---- Users to Users [Sassen y Latham, figuration of mediating cultures]
Error: Incorrect Formatting ---- The simple mechanics of standing remain in question ---- Public discourse indexes itself temporally ---- circulation organized as a continuous non punctual
http://www.archive.org/index.php
"Connection between publication and events-made-public is not transparent but is crucial to the experience of media in time and therefore in history" (138)
The Web represents time and simultaneously produces temporalities for its users; it records and performs. TV Liveness (exógeno) vs. Web Real Time (endógeno), ambas son construcciones intricadas.
Error: Private and Public. Called into public by "the act of linking". Interpolate present into a speculative future; Private & Public coexist and merge at times; Singularity, plenitude, and instantaneity of its interpretative space. "Emulation works as a preservation strategy in part because it helps self-consciously to underscore the differences between pages and documents -that is, between issues of format and matters of concern"


+ The H-Bot
The H-Bot & the Internet of 1854
Record & Document only make sense in the word "forever"....[Asimov] or is it Posterity?
Media & Orders
"Production is indeed historiography's quasi-universal principal of explanation, since historical research grasps every document as a symptom of whatever produced it" (Michel de Certeau)