ISBN: 9780804751506 - files: law and media technology (meridian: crossing aesthetics) (6 Ergebnisse)

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Gebunden. Zustand: New. 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 mediev.

Zustand: New. 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: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 454. . 2008. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. illustrated edition. 216 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 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 in Vismann's Files ranges from the work of the Roman magistrates to the concern over one's own file, as expressed in the context of the files kept by the East German State Security. The book concludes with a look at the computer architecture in which all the stacks, files, and registers that had already created order in medieval and early modern administrations make their reappearance.…