Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contenidos: Introduction

Archival Media Theory: An Introduction to Wolfgang Ernst’s Media Archaeology — Jussi Parikka

Media Archaeology as a Trans-Atlantic Bridge

Part I: The Media Archaeological Method

Let There Be Irony: Cultural History and Media Archaeology in Parallel Lines

Media Archaeography: Method and Machine versus History and Narrative of Media

Part II: From Temporality to the Multimedial Archive
3. Underway to the Dual System: Classical Archives and Digital Memory
4. Archives in Transition: Dynamic Media Memories
5. Between Real Time and Memory on Demand: Reflections on Television
6. Discontinuities: Does the Archive Become Metaphorical in Multi-Media Space?

Part III: Microtemporal Media
7. Telling versus Counting: A Media-Archaeological Point of View
8. Distory: 100 Years of Electron Tubes, Media-Archaeologically Interpreted vis-à-vis 100 Years of Radio
9. Towards a Media Archaeology of Sonic Articulations
10. Experimenting Media‑Temporality: Pythagoras, Hertz, Turing

Appendix

Archive Rumblings: An Interview with Wolfgang Ernst — Geert Lovink

Then: Acknowledgments, Notes, Publication History, Index

Digital Memory and the Archive presents a groundbreaking shift in media studies, placing archival mechanisms and infrastructure at the core of how we understand memory and digital culture. Wolfgang Ernst, through essays edited by Jussi Parikka, argues that understanding archives—and their influence—requires focusing on machine time, logging systems, and micro-temporal interfaces. He and Parikka explore how classical archival concepts evolve—or resist—in the face of cloud storage, streaming media, and continuous digital preservation, reshaping how society remembers.