Wolfgang Ernst

Chronopoetics

The Temporal Being and Operativity of Technological Media

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Produktbeschreibung

An abridged and translated edition of two of Wolfgang Ernst's major works, representing the ambitious claim of a comprehensive knowledge-oriented analysis of media tempor(e)alities.

Produktdetails

• Media Philosophy
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 578g
• ISBN-13: 9781783485703
• ISBN-10: 1783485701
• Artikelnr.: 42969143

Autorenporträt

Wolfgang Ernst is Professor of Media Theories at the Institute of Musicology and Media Studies, Humboldt University, Germany. His many publications include Digital Memory and the Archive (2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Preface to the Focused English Edition
1. Introducing "Time-Critical Media Processes"
Part I: Electrotechnical Microtemporalities
2. Signal Transmission and Delay
3. Generating Time by Technical Measuring
4. The Computer as Time-Critical Medium
Part II: Media-Induced Disruptions of the Human Perception of Time
5. Experiencing Time as Sound: Recorded Voices, Magnetic Tapes
6. A Close Reading of the Electronic "Time Image"
7. The Media Timing of Non-Linear Communication
Part III: Re-Thinking "Media Historiography"
8. The Heterochronic Being-in-Time of Technical Media
9. Equitempor(e)alities in Media Knowledge
Bibliography
Index