Includes bibliographical references and index.

Early film history and multi-media: an archaeology of possible futures? / Thomas Elsaesser -- Electricity made visible / Geoffrey Batchen -- "Tones from out of nowhere": Rudolph Pfenninger and the archaeology of synthetic sound / Thomas Y. Levin -- Memex revisited / Vannevar Bush -- Out of file, out of mind / Cornelia Vismann -- Dis/continuities: Does the archive become metaphorical in multi-media space? / Wolfgang Ernst -- Breaking down: Godard's histories / Richard Dienst -- Ordering law, judging history: deliberations on court TV / Lynne Joyrich -- The style of sources: remarks on the theory and history of programming languages / Wolfgang Hagen -- Science as open source process / Friedrich Kittler -- Cold War networks, or, Kaiserstr. 2, Neubabelsberg / Friedrich Kittler -- Protocol vs. institutionalization / Alexander R. Galloway -- Reload: liveness, mobility, and the Web / Tara McPherson -- Generation flash / Lev Manovich -- Viruses are good for you / Julian Dibbell -- The imaginary of the artificial: automata, models, machinics; on promiscuous modeling as precondition for poststructuralist ontology / Anders Michelsen -- Information, crisis, catastrophe / Mary Ann Doane -- The weird global media event and the tactical intellectual [version 3.0] / MacKenzie Wark -- Imperceptible perceptions in our technological modernity / Arvind Rajagopal -- Deep Europe: a history of the syndicate network / Geert Lovink -- The cell phone and the crowd: messianic politics in the contemporary Philippines / Vicente L. Rafael -- Cybertyping and the work of race in the age of digital reproduction / Lisa Nakamura -- Network subjects, or, the ghost is the message / Nicholas Mirzeoff -- Modes of digital identification: virtual technologies and webcam cultures / Ken Hillis -- Hypertext Avant la lettre / Peter Krapp -- Network fever / Mark Wigley -- The demystifica-hic-tion of in-hic-formation / Thomas Keenan.