Files - (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) by Cornelia Vismann (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Cornelia Vismann's extraordinary <i>Files</i> . . . 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 "<i>The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory</i>"<br><br>Vismann's <i>Files<i> is a highly original and theoretical project that combines the thinking of Derrida (on law and its enforcement) and Foucault (on juridical discourse and 'gouvernmentalité') with specific motifs of German media theory as developed by Friedrich Kittler. The book is a state-of-the-art contribution to the analysis of culture that allows us to envision a truly new interrelation between historical research and a comprehensive philosophy of culture that is yet to come.--Rüdiger Campe "Yale University"<br><br>Vismann's erudite and attentive analysis shows clear awareness of the danger of both a perfect order (where everything is registered, recorded) and that of a deconstruction possible turning into an order of its own kind with potentially its own para-juridical legend.--Thanos Zartaloudis "<i>Parallax</i>"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>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.
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