From Greek antiquity to the present, from the book to the gramophone, from Gutenberg to Google, our culture is defined by changes in recording, storage, and transmission media. In a six-volume selection of his writings, Peter Weibel presents an encyclopedia that addresses all areas of the media world.After two volumes covering architecture and music, volume 3 and 4 will be published in 2018 addressing the influence of the new media on art and  literature. Politics and theory in the context of new media are the topics of volume 5 and 6 that are also in preparation.PETER WEIBEL (1944–2023) is an internationally known media and conceptual artist, curator, and art and media theoretician. Since the 1960s his work has firmly regarded artistic creativity as an open-ended field of activity. He was head of the ZKM, Karlsru