Camera Silenta: Time Experiments, Media Networks, and the Experience of Organlessness

Schmidgen, Henning (2013) Camera Silenta: Time Experiments, Media Networks, and the Experience of Organlessness. OSIRIS, 28 (1). pp. 162-188. ISSN 0369-7827, 1933-8287

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Abstract

In order to communicate with isolated test subjects in physiological and psychological laboratories in the late nineteenth century, scholars such as Wilhelm Wundt, Edward W. Scripture, and Hendrik Zwaardemaker used modern technologies, in particular telegraphy. In a similar vein, Marcel Proust equipped his apartment with a soundproof room and a network of cables and switches in order to conduct his famous research on lost time. The combined use of the camera silenta and advanced communication technologies turned time experts around 1900 into spiders: without ears, eyes, or nose, they were waiting at the edge of an extended web of simultaneities for the slightest vibrations their bodies could receive. With Gilles Deleuze and Feelix Guattari, one could say that they experienced states of organlessness.

Item Type: Article
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Subjects: 000 Computer science, information & general works > 000 Generalities, Science
000 Computer science, information & general works > 020 Library & information sciences
Divisions: Languages and Literatures > Institut für Information und Medien, Sprache und Kultur (I:IMSK) > Lehrstuhl für Medienwissenschaft
Depositing User: Dr. Gernot Deinzer
Date Deposited: 28 Apr 2020 13:02
Last Modified: 28 Apr 2020 13:02
URI: https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/17341

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