Hacking this assignment

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 these questions implicitly or explicitly addressed in the dossiers can qualify as hackings of the assignment insofar as they subverted its formal prohibitions, thereby changing the assignment's outcomes.

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."