Media, Information and Technoculture 2000F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Phonograph Cylinder, Clay Tablet, Soot

• School: Western University
• Department: Media, Information and Technoculture
• Course: Media, Information and Technoculture 2000F/G
• Professor: Atle Kjosen

Document Summary

Sounds (acoustics) are occurrences, events that unfold in time. They exists only when it is going out of existence (ong, 31, 32). Optical events (i. e. what we experience with our eyes) have the same characteristics as sound. The flow of time is continuous and is traditionally, irreversible (kr mer, 99). (cid:12254) We can only experience the present (what is happening right now). We cannot experience the past directly (i. e. unmediated). (cid:12254) With technological media, we can have an indirect/mediated experience of the past. We make sense of time in terms of the past, present, future. Reading/writing, hearing, and seeing refer three data streams (cid:12254) (cid:12254) (cid:12254) Prior to the invention of technological media, there was only one data stream: the symbolic. Meaning: the only way to record something externally was in writing. (cid:12254) Writing had a monopoly from 3300 bc (invention of writing) to 1877 (invention of phonograph).