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1 online resource |
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Recursions |
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Recursions: theories of media, materiality, and cultural techniques.
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| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Infrastructures of Time: An Introduction to Hardwired Temporalities -- Part I Media Philosophies of Time Patterning -- 1. The Suspension of Irreversibility: The Fundamental (and Futile) Task of Media -- 2. Time and Technology: The Temporalities of Care -- 3. Problems of Temporality in the Digital Epoch -- 4. Suspending the "Time Domain" : Technological Tempor(e)alities of Media Infrastructures -- Part II Microtimes -- 5. Infrastructuring Leap Seconds : The Regime of Temporal Plurality in Digitally Networked Media -- 6. Life at the Femtosecond -- 7. Artificial Intelligence and the Temporality of Machine Images -- 8. Intervals of Intervention : Micro- Decisions and the Temporal Autonomy of Self-Driving Cars -- Part III Lifetimes -- 9. Grounded Speed and the Soft Temporality of Network Infrastructure -- 10. Unruly Bodies of Code in Time -- 11. Screwed: Anxiety and the Digital Ends of Anticipation -- 12. Beep: Listening to the Digital Watch -- Part IV Futures -- 13. Captured Time: Eye Tracking and the Attention Economy -- 14. Ahead of Time : The Infrastructure of Amazon's Anticipatory Shipping Method -- 15. Artificial Neural Networks, Postdigital Infrastructures and the Politics of Temporality -- 16. Technics of Time: Values in Future Internet Development -- Index |
| 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 |
| Analysis |
digital technology, infrastructures, media, temporal politics, time |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Time.
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Time perception.
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Digital media.
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Time
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Time Perception
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time.
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Media studies.
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Technology: general issues.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Social.
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Digital media.
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Time.
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Time perception.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Volmar, Axel, editor.
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Stine, Kyle, editor
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| ISBN |
9789048550753 |
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9048550750 |
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