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  1. Cover
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction: Everything Is a Lab
    1. Case Study: The French-Language Lab (Middlebury College, Vermont)
  8. 1. Lab Space
    1. Case Study: Menlo Park Laboratory (Menlo Park, New Jersey)
    2. Case Study: MIT Media Lab, Part 1 (MIT)
    3. Case Study: Media Archaeological Fundus (Humboldt University, Germany)
  9. 2. Lab Apparatus
    1. Case Study: The Signal Laboratory (Humboldt University, Germany)
    2. Case Study: The Media Archaeology Lab (University of Colorado Boulder)
  10. 3. Lab Infrastructure
    1. Case Study: Home Economics Labs and Extension on the Canadian Prairies (Manitoba, Canada)
    2. Case Study: Black Laboratories and Agricultural Extension
  11. 4. Lab People
    1. Case Study: MIT Media Lab, Part 2 (MIT)
    2. Case Study: ACTLab (University of Texas Austin)
  12. 5. Lab Imaginaries
    1. Case Study: Hybrid Spaces of Experimentation and Parapsychology
    2. Case Study: Bell Labs, a Factory for Ideas
  13. 6. Lab Techniques
  14. Conclusion
  15. Notes
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index
  18. About the Authors

About the Authors

Lori Emerson is associate professor of English literature and intermedia arts, writing, and performance at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is also founding director of the Media Archaeology Lab and director of the Intermedia Arts, Writing, and Performance Program. Emerson is author of Reading Writing Interfaces (Minnesota, 2014) and coeditor of numerous collections, including The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media.

Jussi Parikka is professor in technological culture and aesthetics at Winchester School of Art (University of Southampton) and, starting in January 2022, professor in digital aesthetics and culture at Aarhus University, Denmark. He is also visiting professor at FAMU at Academy of Performing Arts, Prague. Parikka is author of several books, including Insect Media (Minnesota, 2010) and A Geology of Media (Minnesota, 2015), as well as coeditor of several collections, such as Writing and Unwriting (Media) Art History: Erkki Kurenniemi in 2048 and Photography off the Scale.

Darren Wershler is associate professor at Concordia University, where he holds the Concordia University Research Chair in Media and Contemporary Literature and is cofounder of the Media History Research Centre and director of the Residual Media Depot. Darren is author of several books, including Guy Maddin’s My Winnipeg and The Iron Whim: A Fragmented History of Typewriting.

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The University of Minnesota Press gratefully acknowledges the generous support provided for the publication of this book by a Eugene M. Kayden Research Grant from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Copyright 2022 by Darren Wershler, Lori Emerson, and Jussi Parikka
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