In this master's thesis, we emphasize the significance of radical media archaeology as the definitive radicalization of media archaeology, whose emergence in communication studies or, more precisely, media science, represents the fulfilment of media and communication studies project. In the first two chapters, we first contextualize and systematize the trajectory of communication studies to date, which methodologically culminates in media archaeology. In the third chapter, we explore the key conceptual innovations of radical media archaeology and the philosophical potency (and generality) of Wolfgang Ernst's theoretical approach. It is through concepts like micro-temporality, operativity, and technológos that we can fully grasp the importance of seeking concepts (or abstraction) within technology itself, and the ways in which thinking is increasingly grounded in technology or, more precisely, computation. In the final chapter, we make a definite radicalization of media archaeology by demonstrating the depth of Ernst's findings and highlighting the fundamental transformation occurring at the level of abstraction itself, beyond just media. We connect Ernst's theory with Davor Löffler's deep futurology to explain the broader transformations within technológos, which indicate the emergence of a new layer of generativity and the ultimate materialization and operationalization of thought: its potential for implementation. In conclusion, we revisit the need for autonomous conceptual production in media studies, achievable only through the development of a new science of computation.
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