Media Theory and New materialism electronic data is pernicious by virtue of its susceptibility to symbolic propagation in an environment explicitly built and engineered to model ideal conditions of immateriality; forensic imagination
medium-specificity means keeping an eye on the multiple materialities; he applied this to electronic media
stemming from Kittler; calls for more specific and nuanced analyses of the modalities of materiality in which we are embedded in cultures of abstraction; methodology is close to the conjunction of rethinking of archives and media-archaeological methods; suggests a methodology and vocabulary for processes of the information culture, which acknowledges the inscription technologies of our age demand a (digital) humanities understanding