Negative Media Erasure and the Limits of Retention

"Negative Media is a brilliant and necessary reckoning with the myths of digital permanence and the seductive fantasies of infinite memory. With historical and theoretical rigor, this book unravels the utopian pull of the digital cloud." -Mél Hogan, Queens University

"Negative Media offers an inspiring theoretical framework for examining the often-overlooked role of erasure in media technologies. A meaningful contribution for scholars in media studies, communication, science and technology studies, and digital humanities." -Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, University of Copenhagen

"Negative Media compellingly demonstrates how erasure is a practice or protocol-sometimes accidental, sometimes intentional-that's informed by a variety of intersecting concerns: commercial, political, artistic, and material." -Shannon Mattern, Metropolitan New York Library Council