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Media, Time and SpaceLecture 1 Media as/and Nature
Defamiliarising Time and Space
broader sense than Media in transformation, media transform us. Also our
understanding of time and space.
Time and Space are mediation between the objective and subjective. than
mediation has a history which we can trace through media
Media as the strategies and tactics of culture and society as the devices and
crafts by which humans and things, animals and data, hold together in time
and space.” (Peters, 18)
2 short readings:
"Space": the temporal is about power
recalibration: relationship between media and lived time
"Temporality": media both annihilate and produce space; they are
fundamentally orienting and disorienting
it is in the nature of media to disappear in the background: just like time and space
time and space are difficult to explain because they are so familiar, it is are basis
of existence, like fish in water. How would fish explain water?
What would a counter environment be like?
i. Nature and/as Media
"The question of how to define nature humans and media are ultimately the same
question" - Peters 51
“If most mainstream media studies see media as objects or institutions, the
tradition I present takes media as modes of being.”- Peters 51
Media studies studies more than media, more than what we think of media.
media are modes of being
,"Media are not just pipes or channels. Media theory has something both
ecological and existential to say. Media are more than the audiovisual and print
institutions that strive to fill our empty seconds with programming and advertising
stimulus; they are our condition, our fate, and our challenge. Without means there
is no life. We are mediated by our bodies; by our dependence on oxygen; by the
ancient history of life written into each of our cells; by upright posture, sexual pair
bonding, and the domestication of plants and animals; by calendar-making and
astronomy; by the printing press, the green revolution, and the Internet. We are
not only surrounded by the historyrich artifacts of applied intelligence; we
also are such artifacts. Culture is part of our natural history." (Peters, p. 52)
human life depends on all certain kinds of media
mediated by our body; ground media
we are artificial from the beginning
we do not just make thing things made us
ii. The Concept of Media
what is media?
"Medium has always meant an element, environment, or vehicle in the middle
of things" (Peters, 46)
was connected to nature long before it was connected to tech
has roots in ancient greece and rome but our contemporary understanding
depends on early modern periods
in the classical century
greek: sympathy and harmony between the universe and man
a substance that enabled the eyes to connect with objects
medium and milieu > medius (middle)
In the 13th century; "suggles in the term medium to account for the missing
link in the remote action of seeing
media have always stepped in to fill the environmental gaps
, in the 17th century newton reconceptualised medium to be more
instrumental and scientific, “an intermediate agent” for transmitting light,
sound, gravity, and magnetism; medium have to be more scientific
peters, p 46
in the 19th century medium slowly comes t refer to the conveyance of
specifically human signals
the new concept of t medium blurred to together signal(physics) and symbol
(semiotics).”
Example: the telegraph (electromagnetism and writing)
medium as a spirit medium; communicate with the dead (the greatest
distance to connect with)
audio recordings meant for voice recordings of dead relatives
still kinda popular in the 20th and 21th century
in the 20th century: media comes to mean mass media; radio tv film
newspaper etc.
recover this older environmental meaning as an all pervasive ecology
money power love can also be media
21st century
“Compared to mass media, digital media did seem like an enormous historical
rupture. But if we place digital devices in the broad history of communication
practices, new media can look a lot like old or ancient media. Like ‘new media,’
ancient media such as registers, indexes, the census, calendars, and catalogs
have always been in the business of recording, transmitting, and processing
culture; of managing subjects, objects, and data; of organizing time, space, and
power. ... The chief mode of communication in the heart of the twentieth century—
audiovisual broadcasting—is the historical exception. Digital media return us to the
norm of data-processing devices of diverse size, shape and format in which many
people take part and polished ‘content’ is rare.” Peters, p. 19
media has come full circle
we are going back to this older understanding of media as environmental
media become logistical media ; eg. sorting people
, iii. An Elemental Philosophy of Media
“I try to stir together semantic strains that speak to a historical moment in which
we cannot think of computation without thinking about carbon, or of the cloud
without thinking about data. Today natural facts are media, and cultural facts have
elemental imprint. We can see the Internet as a means of existence, in some ways
close to water, air, earth, fire, and ether in its basic shaping of environments.”
(Peters, p. 49)
“The crossroads of humans and things defines the domain of media studies. We
are conditioned by conditions we condition. We, the created creators, shape
tools that shape us. We live by our crafts and conditions. It is hard to look them in
the face.” (Peters, 51)
we are condition by conditions we condition
dolphin example
it is hard to look them in the face
we shape tools that shape us
“Artificiality is natural to human beings.”
media as the extension of the central nervous system - and also its amputation
McLuhan
extension; not having to remember phone number
amputation; messing with your memory
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