Media Temporalities in the Internet: Philosophy of Time and Media with Derrida and Rorty

Abstract

The essay comprises four sections. The first section provides a survey of some significant developments which today determine philosophical discussion on the subject of ‘time’. The second section conisders the question of how time and the issue of media are linked with one another in the views of two influential contemporary philosophers – Jacques Derrida and Richard Rorty. Finally, in the third section, the temporal implications of cultural practices developing in the new medium of the Internet are analyzed and, in the fourth section, related to the named philosophers' theses.

Online discussion groups for bulimia nervosa: An inductive approach to Internet‐based communication between patients

“…22 In the case of a health-related forum such as the bulimia forum examined here, seasonal mood crises are potentially responsible for the increased communication. 23 It was not possible to carry out an analysis of the content of postings at this stage. The typing carried out in this study can only be a first step toward a wider-reaching analysis of forum communication.…”

Interactivity - Hypertextuality - Transversality. A media-philosophical analysis of the Internet

“…In cyberspace everything is present here and now. This leads to change in our experience of time (Sandbothe, 2000a). On IRC, in the MUDs and MOOs there is no night.…”

Aspects of advanced foreign language proficiency: Internet‐mediated German language play

“…Bolter 1991;Crystal 2001;Herring 2002;Walther 1996). Sandbothe (1998) explains that the "appresent presence" of interlocutors in CmC has led to a "fluidity" of the distinction between language (i.e. speech) and writing -a state of linguistic affairs that he quite illustratively refers to as the "scriptualization of language" and the "verbalization of writing".…”

“…speech) and writing -a state of linguistic affairs that he quite illustratively refers to as the "scriptualization of language" and the "verbalization of writing". According to Sandbothe (1998),…”

“…de Guerrero 1999de Guerrero , 2004Lantolf 1997Lantolf , 2000Lantolf and Yáñez 2003;Ohta 2001). In other words, the "appresent presence" (Sandbothe 1998) of the conversational partner in CmC may license an increase in 'talking to yourself' -a communicative practice that is typically suppressed in the adult in the social presence of others (Kuczaj 1983). Seamus appears to engage in private speech in these data in the case of repeated letters such as sedafdsfsdfdsf which he refers to as "frustration words".…”