- Publisher's listprice GBP 87.00
-
42 934 Ft (40 890 Ft + 5% VAT)
The price is estimated because at the time of ordering we do not know what conversion rates will apply to HUF / product currency when the book arrives. In case HUF is weaker, the price increases slightly, in case HUF is stronger, the price goes lower slightly.
- Discount 10% (cc. 4 293 Ft off)
- Discounted price 38 641 Ft (36 801 Ft + 5% VAT)
Subcribe now and take benefit of a favourable price.
Subscribe
42 934 Ft
Availability
Estimated delivery time: In stock at the publisher, but not at Prospero's office. Delivery time approx. 3-5 weeks.
Not in stock at Prospero.
Why don't you give exact delivery time?
Delivery time is estimated on our previous experiences. We give estimations only, because we order from outside Hungary, and the delivery time mainly depends on how quickly the publisher supplies the book. Faster or slower deliveries both happen, but we do our best to supply as quickly as possible.
Product details:
- Publisher University Of Minnesota Press
- Date of Publication 24 June 2025
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781517918811
- Binding Hardback
- See also 9781517918828
- No. of pages240 pages
- Size 229x152x7 mm
- Weight 425 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 71 black and white illustrations 681
Categories
Long description:
A poetics for reading the everyday objects that populate a hard drive
Bespoke online archives like PennSound and Eclipse host an astounding array of “old media” artifacts, posing a handcrafted counterpoint to the immense databases aggregated by digital titans like Google and Facebook. In The Little Database, Daniel Scott Snelson argues for the significance of these comparatively “small” collections, exploring how digital archives dramatically transform the artifacts they host and how they might help us better understand our own private collections in turn.
Examining curated collections such as Textz, UbuWeb, and the Electronic Poetry Center, Snelson explores media-specific works by poets and artists, including William Carlos Williams, Tracie Morris, bill bissett, Nam June Paik, and Vicki Bennett. He develops creative tools and contingent methods for reading cultural data, whether found on the internet or in our own collections of TXT, JPG, MP3, and MOV artifacts, presenting case studies to show how these objects have come to find revised meaning in their digital contexts. Along the way, experimental poetic interludes give readers practical entry points into the creative practice of producing new meanings in any given little database.
Inventive and interdisciplinary, The Little Database grapples with the digitized afterlives of cultural objects, showing how the past is continually reconfigured to shape the present. It invites readers to find playful and personal means for unpacking their own data collections, in the process discovering idiosyncratic ways to explore and connect with digital archives.
Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and/or extended descriptions.
MoreTable of Contents:
Contents
Introduction. Reading the Little Database
1. Textwarez: The Executable Files of Textz.com
Interlude 1. EXE TXT
2. Distributing Services: Periodical Preservation and Eclipse
Interlude 2. L≠A≠N≠G≠U≠A≠G≠E
3. Live Vinyl MP3: Echo Chambers among the Little Databases
Interlude 3. Also This: No Title
4. Dropping the Frame: From Film to Database
Interlude 4. Flash Artifacts
Epilogue. The EPC: On the Persistence of Obsolescent Networks
Acknowledgments.zip
Notes
Index
More
