'Homer and the Voice': lecture by Mark Cousins, 22nd October, 2010

Extent: 2 digital files (4.14 GB)

Comprises audio recording of a lecture entitled 'Homer and the Voice', given by Mark Cousins on the 22nd October, 2010. The recordings consist of a digital preservation file 2.89 GB, .mpg format) and a digital access file (1.25 GB .mp4 format). Duration of access version: 1hr 6min 33sec.

Copyright: Architectural Association

Creator: Mark Cousins

Admin History: The recording is of the 1st lecture in the series entitled 'Technology and the First Person Singular', given by Mark Cousins as part of the AA Open Lecture series, 2010-2011. Mark Cousins examines the relationship between technology and experience. He proposes that some technologies operate as a prosthetist and, under Freud's point of view, reconfigure the 'insufficient man' as a God. For Cousins, the most important technological change is the introduction of writing, rather than printing. Writing is presented in this lecture not as a technique of representation or a new way of representing words and thought. It is a script that transformed the storage issue, and the library becomes an exteriorised material that stores what has been said and thought.

Custodial History: Original recording (format unknown) was made by the AA Audio Visual Department and a digital copy (.iso format) has been retained on the department's servers since c2013.

Aquisition: Digital preservation and access copies were created by the AA Archives in 2021, using the digital file held by the the AA Audio Visual Department.

Archive Note: Catalogue description by Gabriela Jimenez

Publication Note: AA Events List, Week 4, Autumn Term, 18th - 23rd October, 2010