Media Infrastructures and the Politics of Digital Time : Essays on Hardwired Temporalities

Media Infrastructures and the Politics of Digital Time Essays on Hardwired Temporalities

Digital media everyday inscribe new patterns of time, promising instant communication, synchronous collaboration, intricate time management, and profound new advantages in speed. The essays in this volume reconsider these outward interfaces of convenience by calling attention to their supporting inf...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Bowker, Geoffrey C., contributor (contributor), Peters, John Durham, contributor (editor), Ernst, Wolfgang, contributor, Gopinath, Sumanth S., contributor, Hodge, James J., contributor, Hui, Yuk, 1985- contributor, Johnston, Andrew R, contributor, Cohn, Marisa Leavitt, contributor, Monea, Alexander, contributor, Nyckel, Eva-Maria, contributor, Otto, Isabell, contributor, Paris, Britt S., contributor, Schabacher, Gabriele, 1967- contributor, Sprenger, Florian, contributor, Starosielski, Nicole, 1984- contributor, Stine, Kyle, editor, Jahn-Sudmann, Andreas, 1974- contributor, Volmar, Axel, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press [2021]
Edición:First edition
Colección:Recursions: theories of media, materiality, and cultural techniques
Materias:
Philosophy.
digital technology, infrastructures, media, temporal politics, time.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009625156106719
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

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