Deep Time of the Media: Toward an Archaeology of Hearing and Seeing by Technical Means (Hardcover)

Deep Time of the Media takes us on an archaeological quest into the hidden layers of media development -- dynamic moments of intense activity in media design and construction that have been largely ignored in the historical-media archaeological record. Siegfried Zielinski argues that the history of the media does not proceed predictably from primitive tools to complex machinery; in Deep Time of the Media, he illuminates turning points of media history -- fractures in the predictable -- that help us see the new in the old.

Drawing on original source materials, Zielinski explores the technology of devices for hearing and seeing through two thousand years of cultural and technological history. He discovers the contributions of "dreamers and modelers" of media worlds, from the ancient Greek philosopher Empedocles and natural philosophers of the Renaissance and Baroque periods to Russian avant-gardists of the early twentieth century. "Media are spaces of action for constructed attempts to connect what is separated," Zielinski writes. He describes models and machinesthat make this conncection: including a theater of mirrors in sixteenth-century Naples, an automaton for musical composition created by the seventeenth-century Jesuit Athanasius Kircher, and the eighteenth-century electrical tele-writing machine of Joseph Mazzolari, among others. Uncovering these moments in the media-archaeological record, Zielinski says, brings us into a new relationship with present-day moments; these discoveries in the "deep time" media history shed light on today's media landscape and may help us map our expedition to the media future.

Siegfried Zielinski, a founder of the new field of media archaeology, is Founding Director of the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne, where he is Professor of Media and Communication Studies and is developing a workshop for a variantology of the media. He has published more than a dozen books and many articles. Deep Time of the Media is the second of his books to appear in English.

 

Foreword
Timothy Druckrey vii
 
 Acknowledgments xiii
 
1 Introduction: The Idea of a Deep Time of the Media 1
 
2 Fortuitous Finds Instead of Searching in Vain: Methodological Borrowings and Affinities for an Anarchaeology of Seeing and Hearing by Technical Means 13
 
3 Attraction and Repulsion: Empedocles 39
 
4 Magic and Experiment: Giovan Battista Della Porta 57
 
5 Light and Shadow--Consonance and Dissonance: Athanasius Kircher 101
 
6 Electrification, Tele-Writing, Seeing Close Up: Johann Wilhelm Ritter, Joseph Chudy, and Jan Evangelista Purkyně 159
 
7 The Discovery of a Pit, a Camera Obscura of Iniquity: Cesare Lombroso 205
 
8 The Economy of Time: Aleksej Kapitanovich Gastev 227
 
9 Conclusions: Including a Proposal for the Cartography of Media Anarchaeology 255
 
 Notes 281
 
 Bibliography 322
 
 Credits 363
 
 Index 365

 

《媒體的深度時間》帶領我們進入媒體發展的隱藏層面，這些媒體設計和建構的動態時刻在歷史媒體考古記錄中往往被忽視。西格弗里德·齊林斯基（Siegfried Zielinski）認為，媒體的歷史並不是從原始工具預測性地發展到複雜機械；在《媒體的深度時間》中，他闡明了媒體歷史的轉折點，即可預測性的斷裂，這些斷裂幫助我們在舊有中看到新的東西。

齊林斯基利用原始資料探索了兩千年的文化和技術歷史中用於聽覺和視覺的設備技術。他發現了媒體世界的“夢想家和模型師”的貢獻，從古希臘哲學家恩佩多克勒斯、文藝復興和巴洛克時期的自然哲學家，到二十世紀初的俄羅斯前衛藝術家。齊林斯基寫道：“媒體是連接分離事物的建構性嘗試的行動空間。”他描述了實現這種連接的模型和機器，包括十六世紀那不勒斯的鏡子劇場、十七世紀耶穌會士阿塔納修斯·基爾赫創造的音樂自動製作機和十八世紀約瑟夫·馬佐拉里的電動遠程書寫機，等等。齊林斯基表示，揭示這些媒體考古記錄中的時刻，將使我們與當今時刻建立新的關係；這些對“深度時間”媒體歷史的發現，為當今的媒體景觀提供了新的視角，並可能幫助我們規劃媒體未來的探索。

西格弗里德·齊林斯基是媒體考古學新領域的創始人，他是科隆媒體藝術學院的創始院長，也是媒體和傳播學教授，正在開發一個媒體變異學的工作坊。他已出版過十多本書和許多文章。《媒體的深度時間》是他的第二本英文書籍。

目錄：

前言
蒂莫西·德魯克里（Timothy Druckrey）序
致謝
第一章 引言：媒體深度時間的概念
第二章 偶然發現而非徒勞尋覓：技術手段下的看與聽的無政府考古學
第三章 吸引與排斥：恩佩多克勒斯
第四章 魔法與實驗：喬凡·巴蒂斯塔·德拉·波爾塔
第五章 光與影-和諧與不和諧：阿塔納修斯·基爾赫
第六章 電氣化、遠程書寫、近距離觀察：約翰·威廉·里特、約瑟夫·楚迪和揚·伊萬吉利斯塔·普爾金耶
第七章 發現一個坑洞，一個邪惡的暗房：切薩雷·隆布羅索
第八章 時間的經濟：亞歷克謝·卡皮塔諾維奇·加斯捷夫
第九章 結論：媒體無政府考古學的地圖學提案
附註
參考文獻
圖片來源
索引