The Sedimented Screen: Media Archaeology and the American Southwest

How screens create spaces of exception and extraction from the conquest of the New World to the frontiers of data colonialism.

What is the ground of the screen? How do screens take place and lay claim to the real? Taking its cue from Edmund Husserl's model of sedimentation and reactivation, The Sedimented Screen offers an innovative approach to media archaeology by investigating the relationship between screens and sites. Arguing that space needs to be conjured before it can be claimed and c...