Files: Law and Media Technology

by Cornelia Vismann

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080475151X
• ISBN13: 9780804751513
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.9"