ABSTRACT
Where do old media go to die or hide? Why are some resurrected or just keep haunting the present by their absence? During the last decade there has been a rising interest in the ways media age, often as an antidote to all the spin surrounding so-called ‘new media’ (see, for example, Gitelman and Pingree 2003; Hui Kyong Chun and Keenan 2006). Following scholars like Williams (1980), Kittler (1986/1999) and Marvin (1988), there have been discussions of the residual (Acland 2007), of remediation and of the ways in which old and new media coexist and intersect (Bolter and Grusin 1999; Jenkins 2006). Inspired by material culture studies, there are also studies of the life cycles of media, linked to the materialities and practicalities of everyday life.1
