Hofmannsthal: Zahl und Zeit

Taschner, Rudolf

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“…When the late scholasticist Nicolas d’Oresme compared the movements of the celestial bodies to the rhythms of the mechanical escapement device of a clock in Le livre du ciel et du monde , he modelled nature on technical mechanisms instead of modelling technology on organic archetypes. Since ‘clockwork rhythms more appropriately define time units than the original rhythms of the heavens’ (Taschner, 2005: 56), the mechanical media of time measurement dictate their non-discursive internal temporality to culture and turn the observer himself into their own medium. Galileo suggested that Christiaan Huygens should not use the human heartbeat, but rather mechanical oscillations to measure time.…”

Section: The Autonomization Of Culture and History: The Micro-time Of Technical Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The end result is the atomic clock, which is based on the oscillations of a Caesium isotope. ‘Atomic clocks are so precise that they are the ones defining chronological units now, rather than celestial phenomena’ (Taschner, 2005: 56). This moment marks the emancipation of the media of measurement from nature within the medium of nature.…”

Section: The Autonomization Of Culture and History: The Micro-time Of Technical Mediamentioning

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From Media History to Zeitkritik

Ernst

2013

Theory, Culture & Society

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Wolfgang Ernst, Professor of Media Theories at the Humboldt University in Berlin, has become known through his work on media archaeology. Hence the inclusion of this translation represents an alternative take on cultural techniques. It places the legacy of cultural studies, or Kulturwissenschaften, in an interesting tension with the different epistemological demands that technical media impose. After Vico and Dilthey, argues Ernst, we need to investigate the specific modes of knowledge that technical media propose to cultural techniques. Ernst’s media archaeology and the slightly different approach to cultural techniques found in some other contributions in this issue can be seen as two of the most intriguing ways in which current German media studies has been developing in relation to Friedrich Kittler’s impact. For Ernst, this has resulted in a more technical focus and also in the development of critiques of temporality that go beyond media history. Ernst argues that media temporality is not to be understood only through the cultural history of media technologies, but also how media technologies produce time. Machines have their own specific temporality, Eigenzeit. It is in this context that the article discusses the different approaches to cultural techniques, taking into consideration the specific time-critical and epistemic implications of technical media.

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Section: The Autonomization Of Culture and History: The Micro-time Of Technical Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Autonomization Of Culture and History: The Micro-time Of Technical Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%