Like Lisa Gittelman, whose work we adore (especially her Always Already New: Media, History, and the Data of Culture MIT, 2006) we stand by Geert Lovink’s formulation that “Media archaeology is first and foremost a methodology, a hermeneutic reading of the ‘new’ against the grain of the past, rather than a telling of the histories of technologies from past to present.” And, along with Lori Emerson, whose pioneering Media Archaeology Lab has inspired so much of what we do, we are fascinated by the ways in which old and new technology coexists. At mpark we encourage thinking expansively about the ways in which, for example, the typewriter still shapes the modern computer keyboard or how hand-held video recorders are now prized commodities, sought out for the grainy patina their images produce.