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• Magic Lantern
  ...Robertson’s show, they did explore similar themes of “phantoms,” “death,” or the “absent” (Barber 78). For example, Paul de Philipsthal’s ...rowing rapidly” (78). It also appealed to “people’s anxieties about death and the afterlife” (78). Though previous users of lanterns made this sam
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• Homing Pigeons
  ...pair- a male and a female- remained, held in the Cincinnati Zoo. With the death of the male in 1912, the species -and the medium- were doomed.
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• Minitel
  ...nge indicates that the French Minitel service, may finally be close to its death. The fact that these lines have stayed open for so long may be indicative o
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• Semaphore Telegraph
  ...n invention of arrival notification which later developed into a symbol of death or defeat. On a good day, the semaphore telegraph was not used; trouble wou
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• Phonograph Doll
  ...x the lesson that the little doll must obediently repeat to the day of her death with guaranteed fidelity" (Hillier, ''Automata'' 94). Hillier aptly assert
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• Data Visualization and Defunct Visual Metaphors
  ...Garfinkel.jpg|thumb|The Cover of Simson Garfinkel's ''Database Nation: The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century'']]
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• Roentgen Ray Tube
  ...gas tube thus became obsolete when it was replaced by a vacuum tube. The death of the gas tube can be seen as the birth of free energy, or energy that doe ...ossible by the life of the organism in which it grows. Therefore life and death are sometimes conflated, or mapped onto each other.
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• Nansen Passport
  ..., mostly invalids, women, and children, faced with winter, starvation, and death" (quoted in Skran, 38). ==Death, Media and the Document==
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• The Market
  ...ican War and the Financial Logic of Risk Management'', we propose that the death of the market as a media object was accomplished by the same process that m It is even necessary to consider the death of exchange, for exchange implies that all parties lose one object (either
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• Hacking this assignment
  ...o longer embodied in a specific place or media technology. The question of death is discussed more explicitly on the pages, [[Mediatic Etymology]], and [[Wh '''History''': The problems of death and remediation sometimes come into tension when one attempts to assemble t
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• Where do media go to die?
  ...the failure of component parts (the brain, heart, etc…) does not a media death make. Instead, media either slowly recede into disuse—rendered obsolete,
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• Political Effigies
  ...oodward again points out, “Edward III was buried within two weeks of his death and thus public display of his corpse was possible but nevertheless an effi ...nty: on the head of the image (worked apparently since Henry VII after the death mask) there was the crown, while the artificial hand held orb and scepter.
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• Car Phone
  =Death= ...sts, advances in technology (specifically digital technology), sounded the death knell for the car phone.
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• Wire Recording
  ...e average middle class citizen, there is still an important reason for the death of the wire recorder, and it has to do with Thomas Edison.
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• BeOS
  ...ommercial support in the form of compatible software. Both its commercial death and rebirths through other OS's with similar features and the open-source c
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• Architectural cyanotypes
  ...Herschel’s discovery was largely ignored until 1872, one year after his death. Marion and Company of Paris began marketing “Marion’s Ferro-prussiate == Death ==
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• Dumbwaiter
  =Death=
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• Tamagotchi
  ...though nurtured animals do “live” longer than neglected ones. After death, the player can reset the toy and begin again with a brand new Tamagotchi e ...atures could always be re-born, the toy created unrealistic perceptions of death. One critic writes that children “can become confused about the reality o
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• Talking View-Master
  After Gruber’s untimely death in 1965, Harold Graves sold the company to the General Aniline and Film Cor
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• Nickelodeon
  ==The Death of Silent Film==
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• Dymaxion House
  One possible cause of the death, or non-implementation, of the Dymaxion House could be in fact completely d
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• HD-DVD
  =Death=
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• Cyanotype (Architectural)
  ...wn upon and underutilized. It wasn't until 1872, one year after Herschel's death, that the commercial possibilities of the apparatus were exploited. The pro == DEATH ==
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• Marginalia
  ...true emendation and dialogue exist today (see below, "The Contemplation of Death"). ==The Contemplation of Death==
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• Analog/Digital Transition
  ...aphs can now be manipulated due to their digitalization, and the stench of death that is carried by electric light, Bernard Stiegler makes clear his thought ...s further and further, perhaps it will become the only real, only the true death of analog will tell.
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• Old Color Spaces
  ...in 1914 and he passed away in Boston in 1918 at the age of 60. After his death, Dorothy Nickerson (who first worked as secretary to Munsell’s son) worke
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• Erasure
  == The Death of Erasure == The death of unsend corresponds with the death of erasure on the internet. There are a growing number of requests on inter
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• Smoke Signals
  ==Death==
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• Ramelli's Bookwheel
  ...ly for some time, died somewhere in his late 70s. Although the date of his death is unknown, property documents with his signatures have been found dated as
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• Duplicating Polygraph
  ...demonstration at the Tontine Coffee House on July 14th was printed next to death notice for the statesman Alexander Hamilton on the front pages of the ''New Several days after Hamilton’s death, the ''Republican Watch-Tower'' publicized the controversy between the two
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• Signet Ring
  ...t persons wearing rings with images of the assassins of Caesar were put to death (Kuntz 128). This case shows the ring bearing the image of Brutus as dioptr ...an instance of the ring dropping from one's finger was seen as an omen of death" (Kunz 133). Additionally, "The Romans not only took off the rings from the
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• Euphonia Speaking Machine
  ...d not signal immortality but rather called attention to the materiality of death and this physical machine transforms into the spectral ephemerality of spee ==Death of the Speaker==
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• Critical Techniques
  ...ecessarily disappear. Research question: What constitutes a/the moment of death? Is the artifact or representational practice obsolete (outmoded or inoper
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• Grand Guignol
  ...the empirical immediacy of the body" as "belonging to time, to flux and to death" (24). Through this confluence of identities, the audience-body becomes awa ...horror-machine. Hand and Wilson illustrate the processes as, "Not unlike a death-defying carnival rise: the subject is a willing target that both constructs
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• Homosexual Closet
  ...ide the window, is not enough, even in its vastness, to preserve Jack from death.
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• Liveness
  Liveness is experiencing a long and slow death that began with the written word and has continued into broadcast technolog ==Broadcasting: A Case Study in the Death of Liveness==
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• Terra Incognita
  ...b out of the trenches, we see the empty, unknown land in front of us where death goes about its business […] it appears as if a new dimension has opened ...the sublime. One can not enter into the sublime because it would result in death or complete madness. The sublime is black boxed through and through. Enteri
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• Polymath
  =The Death of the Polymath=
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• Bootleg Video
  ...position. The compulsion to "see one's self looking" is the drive towards death (Zizek 1996:94); in that manner bootleg video always finds itself locked in
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• Broadcasting
  ...n chaos over the airwaves, with the new medium virtually choking itself to death. By the mid-1920s it was clear that federal intervention was necessary if r
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• Dime Museums
  ==Death of the Dime Museum==
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• Code Duello
  ...her, "Just as each stakes his own life, so each must must seek the other's death. . .its essential being is present to it in the form of an 'other', it is o ...into a friend by passing through the medium of the duel. "The proximity of death subjects both deullists to a sort of ritual purgation during which all feel
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• Human Sacrifice
  ...There indeed is none, except the logic of the mob. “At the time of Black Death, foriegners were killed and Jews were massacred, and a centry or two later, ...tion of the scapegoat and the violence against him are followed, after his death, by a new mood of harmony and peace” (91) and that is the function that t
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• Mummification
  ...t mean within their own culture? The Ancient Egyptians believed that after death, each individual would move on to the afterlife. The afterlife often took p ...placed in the coffin, a funeral took place on the seventieth day after the death. As the body was transported to the tomb, two women stood close to represen
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• Sundial
  ==Death of the Sundial== The Sundial's death cannot be pinpointed to a single day; it is still utilized today in certain
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• Optical Disc (First Generation)
  ===The Death of LD=== ...fact that VHS could record while the laserdisc could not may have been its death sentence. Originally, the VHS was intended to be purely a recording medium;
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• Oramics
  == Death of Oramics ==
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• Bone Records
  == Death ==
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• Phonebook
  ...birth of the phonebook, this media may be in decline, but is dying a slow death.
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• Mix tape
  ...the music and mix tapes they had constructed. As Sheffield mourns his wife death, he is left pouring over "the 15 mix tapes in the book make up the soundtra == Death of the Mix tape ==
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