Media infrastructures and the politics of digital time : essays on hardwired temporalities / edited by Axel Volmar and Kyle Stine.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Volmar, Axel, editor.

Stine, Kyle, editor.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Recursions: theories of media, materiality, and cultural techniques

Recursions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Time.

Time perception.

Digital media.

Time Perception.

time.

Medical Subjects:

Time.

Time Perception.

Physical Description:

313 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2021]

Summary:

In a crucial sense, all machines are time machines. The essays in 'Media Infrastructures and the Politics of Digital Time' develop the central concept of hardwired temporalities to consider how technical networks hardwire and rewire patterns of time. Digital media introduce new temporal patterns in their features of instant communication, synchronous collaboration, intricate time management, and continually improved speed. They construct temporal infrastructures that affect the rhythms of lived experience and shape social relations and practices of cooperation. Interdisciplinary in method and international in scope, the volume draws together insights from media and communication studies, cultural studies, and science and technology studies while staging an important encounter between two distinct approaches to the temporal patterning of media infrastructures, a North American strain emphasizing the social and cultural experiences of lived time and a European tradition, prominent especially in Germany, focusing on technological time and time-critical processes.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Media Philosophies of Time Patterning

1. The Suspension of Irreversibility: The Fundamental (and Futile) Task of Media / John Durham Peters

2. Time and Technology: The Temporalities of Care / Gabriele Schabacher

3. Problems of Temporality in the Digital Epoch / Yuk Hui

4. Suspending the "Time Domain": Technological Tempor(e)alities of Media Infrastructures / Wolfgang Ernst

pt. II Microtimes

5. Infrastructuring Leap Seconds: The Regime of Temporal Plurality in Digitally Networked Media / Isabell Otto

6. Life at the Femtosecond / Geoffrey C. Bowker

7. Artificial Intelligence and the Temporality of Machine Images / Andrew R. Johnston

8. Intervals of Intervention: Micro-Decisions and the Temporal Autonomy of Self-Driving Cars / Florian Sprenger

pt. III Lifetimes

9. Grounded Speed and the Soft Temporality of Network Infrastructure / Nicole Starosielski

10. Unruly Bodies of Code in Time / Marisa Leavitt Cohn

11. Screwed: Anxiety and the Digital Ends of Anticipation / James J. Hodge

12. Beep: Listening to the Digital Watch / Sumanth Gopinath

pt. IV Futures

13. Captured Time: Eye Tracking and the Attention Economy / Alexander Monea

14. Ahead of Time: The Infrastructure of Amazon's Anticipatory Shipping Method / Eva-Maria Nyckel

15. Artificial Neural Networks, Postdigital Infrastructures and the Politics of Temporality / Andreas Sudmann

16. Technics of Time: Values in Future Internet Development / Britt S. Paris.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9463727426

9789463727426

OCLC:

1259510280