Hemerochronia, or, Take a Walk on the Wild Side of Time

Sideline Snippets on Media Archaeology

Authors

  • Geoffrey Winthrop-Young University of British Columbia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/jca.v2i1.27142

Keywords:

hemerochronia, historiography, Friedrich Kittler, media archaeology, time

Abstract

This essay offers a few brief remarks on certain affects underlying the three main inflections of so-called media archaeology, the most important of which is the affect against hemerochronia, the – alleged – taming of time brought about by historiography. The anti-historiographical orientation is complemented by a view of archaeology as s possible entry point to very different – wilder – realms of time.

Author Biography

  • Geoffrey Winthrop-Young, University of British Columbia

    Geoffrey Winthrop-Young teaches in the German and Scandinavian sections of the Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies at the University of British Columbia.

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Winthrop-Young, G. 2015. “Siren Recursions.” In Kittler Now: Current Perspectives in Kittler Studies, edited by S. Sale and L. Salisbury, 71–94. Cambridge: Polity.

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2015-09-02

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Winthrop-Young, G. (2015). Hemerochronia, or, Take a Walk on the Wild Side of Time: Sideline Snippets on Media Archaeology. Journal of Contemporary Archaeology, 2(1), 143-147. https://doi.org/10.1558/jca.v2i1.27142