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Media infrastructures and the politics of digital time : essays on hardwired temporalities /

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 pa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Volmar, Axel (Editor ), Stine, Kyle (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2021]
Colección:Recursions: theories of media, materiality, and cultural techniques.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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