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The following questions/themes are either implicitly or explicitly addressed in the dead media dossiers:
 
The following questions/themes are either implicitly or explicitly addressed in the dead media dossiers:
  
1) The problem of death, or obsolescence, was rethought in relation to the question of remediation; do media ever die, or are they simply incorporated into new media?  The dossier on "[[The Market]]" explores this question, which is also covered on the page, "[[Mediatic Etymology]]."
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1) The problem of death, or obsolescence, was rethought in relation to the question of remediation; do media ever die, or are they simply incorporated into new media?  The dossier on "[[The Market]]" explores this question, which is also covered on the pages, "[[Mediatic Etymology]], and [[Where do media go to die?]]"
  
 
2) The boundaries of a medium can be difficult to discern. Can a medium ever include its humans users  or its social context?  The dossier on the [[Nansen Passport]] asks whether the Nansen Passport can be considered dead simply because the context in which it was read has changed.
 
2) The boundaries of a medium can be difficult to discern. Can a medium ever include its humans users  or its social context?  The dossier on the [[Nansen Passport]] asks whether the Nansen Passport can be considered dead simply because the context in which it was read has changed.

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Hacking This Assignment

Through critical engagements with dead media artifacts, some of the dossiers on this site ended up questioning the definitions implicit in the assignment, which was to engage with a piece of dead media, or a dead media problematic. Perhaps some of the dossiers can qualify as hackings of the assignment insofar as they subverted its formal prohibitions, thereby changing the assignment's outcomes.

The following questions/themes are either implicitly or explicitly addressed in the dead media dossiers:

1) The problem of death, or obsolescence, was rethought in relation to the question of remediation; do media ever die, or are they simply incorporated into new media? The dossier on "The Market" explores this question, which is also covered on the pages, "Mediatic Etymology, and Where do media go to die?"

2) The boundaries of a medium can be difficult to discern. Can a medium ever include its humans users or its social context? The dossier on the Nansen Passport asks whether the Nansen Passport can be considered dead simply because the context in which it was read has changed.