Time and Technology
This list is developed to address the problematic of time and technology. For different
theorist and disciplines, time is often constructed as variable relating to speed, as
history, as labor/money, as experience or ontology. Such conceptions on time are
usually contingent on a relation to technology, techné, or media-technologies. Drawing
from work in American Studies, Communication Studies, Cultural Studies, History,
Information Sciences, Literature, Media Studies, and Sociology, this list connects
theoretical and philosophical issues regarding various technological and temporal
configurations.
Armitage, John and Joanne Roberts. Living with Cyberspace:Technology and Society in
the 21st Century. New York: Continuum, 2002.
Bauman, Zygmunt. Liquid Times. London: Polity, 2009.
Benjamin, Walter. "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction." Benjamin,
Walter. Illuminations. Ed. Hannah Arendt. Trans. Harry Zohn. New York: Schocken
Books, 1968.
Carey, James. "A Tribute to Harold Innis." Carey, James. Communication as Culture:
Essays on Media and Society. Revised. New York: Routledge, 2009. 109-132.
—. "Technology and Ideology: The Case of the Telegraph." Carey, James.
Communication as Culture. Revised. New York: Routledge, 2009. 155-177.
Carey, James and John Quirk. "Mythos of the Electronic Revolution." Carey, James.
Communication as Culture: Essays on Media and Society. Revised. New York:
Routledge, 2009. 87-108.
—. "The History of the Future." Carey, James. Communication as Culture. Revised. New
York: Routledge, 2009. 133-152.
Duffy, Edna. The Speed Handbook:Velocity, Pleasure Modernism. Durham : Duke
University Press, 2009.
Ellul, Jacques. The Technological Society. Trans. John Wilkinson. New York: Vintage
Books, 1964.
Foucault, Michel. Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault. Ed. Luther
H. Martin and Huck Gutman. Amherst: University of Massachusettes Press, 1988.
Gitelman, Lisa. Always Already New: Media, History and the Data of Culture.
Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006.
Harvey, David. The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry in the Origins of Cultural
Change. Cambridge: Blackwell, 1989.
Heidegger, Martin. "The Question Concerning Technology." Heidegger, Martin. Basic
Writings:From Being and Time (1927) to The Task of Thinking (1964). Ed. David
Farrell. 2nd . New York: Harper Colling Publishers, 1993. 307-342.
Innis, Harold A. Changing Concepts of Time. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
2004.
—. Empire and Communications. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2007.
—. The Bias of Communication. Toronto: Univeristy of Toronto Press, 1951.
Kittler, Friedrich A. Gramaphone, Film, Typewriter. Trans. Geoffrey Winthrop-Young and
Michael Wutz. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999.
—. Optical Media: Berlin Lectures 1999. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2010.
Mackenzie, Adrian. Transductions: Bodies and Machines at Speed. New York:
Continuum, 2002.
Marvin, Carolyn. When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking about Communications in
the Late Nineteenth Centuery. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Marx, Leo. "Technology, the Emergence of a Hazardous Concept." Technology and
Culture 51.3 (2010): 561-577.
—. The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America. Oxford:
Oxford Univeristy Press, 2000.
McCarthy, Anna. Ambient Television: Visual Culture and Public Space. Durham: Duke
University Press, 2001.
McLuhan, Marshall. The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man. Toronto:
University of Toronto Press, 1962.
—. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1964.
Noble, David F. The Religion of Technology: The Divinity of Man and the Spirit of
Invention. New York: Knopf, 1997.
Packer, Jeremy and Craig Robertson. Thinking with James Carey: Essays on
Communications, Tansportation, History. New York: Peter Lang, 2006.
Packer, Jeremy and Kathleen F. Oswald. "Flow and Mobile Media: Broadcast Fixity to
Digital Fluidity." Packer, Jeremy and Steve Wiley. Communication Matters:
Materialist Approaches to Media, Mobility and Networks (Shaping inquiry in Culture,
Communication and Media Studies). New York: Routledge, 2011. 276-287.
Packer, Jeremy and Stephen B. Crofts Wiley. "Introduction: The Materiality of
Communication." Packer, Jeremy and Stephen B. Crofts Wiley. Communication
Matters: Materialist Approaches to Media, Mobility and Networks (Shaping inquiry in
Culture, Communication and Media Studies). New York: Routledge, 2011. 3-16.
Parks, Lisa. Cultures in Orbit: Satellites and the Televisual. Durham: Duke University
Press, 2005.
Peters, John Durham. "Becoming Mollusk: A conversation with John Durham Peters
about media, materiality, and matters of history." Packer, Jeremy and Stephen B.
Crofts Wiley. Communication Matters: Materialist Appraches to Media, Mobilty, and
Networks (Shaping Inquiry in Culture, Communication and Media Studies). New
York: Routledge, 2011. 18-35.
—. Speaking Into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication. Chicago: Univeristy of
Chicago Press, 1999.
Robins, Kevin and Frank Webster. Times of the Technoculture: From the Information
Society to the Virtual Life. London: Routledge, 1999.
Sassen, Saskia. "Spatialities and Temporalities of the Global: Elements for a
Theorization." Public Culture 12.1 (2000): 215-232.
Schiller, Dan. How to Think about Information. Urbana: Univeristy of Illinois Press, 2007.
Sharma, Sarah. "It Changes Space and Time! Introducing Power-chronography."
Packer, Jeremy and Stephen B. Crofts Wiley. Communication Matters: Materialist
Approaches to Media, Mobility and Networks (Shaping Inquiry in Culture,
Communication and Media Studies). New York: Routledge, 2011. 66-77.
—. "Taxis as Media: A Temporal Materialist Reading of the Taxi-Cab." Social Identities:
Journal for the Study of Race, Nation, Culture 14.4 (2008): 457-464.
Slack, Jennifer Daryl and J. Macgregor Wise. Culture + Technology: A Primer. New
York: Peter Lang, 2005.
Slack, Jennifer Daryl. "Beyond Transmission, Modes and Media." Packer, Jeremy and
Stephen B. Crofts Wiley. Communication Matters: Materialist Approaches to Media,
Mobility and Networks (Shaping Inquiry in Culture, Communication and Media
Studies). New York: Routledge, 2011. 143-158.
Sterne, Jonathan. The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction. Durham:
Duke Univerisity Press, 2003.
Stiegler, Bernard. Technics and Time, 1: The Fault of Epimetheus. Trans. Richard
Beardsworth and George Collins. Standford: Stanford University Press, 1998.
—. Technics and Time, 2: Disorientation. Trans. Stephen Barker. Stanford: Standford
Univeristy Press, 2009.
Thompson, E.P. "Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism." Past & Present 38
(1967): 56-97.
Tomlinson, John. The Culture of Speed: The Coming of Immediacy. Los Angeles: Sage,
2007.
Virillio, Paul. Crepuscular Dawn. Trans. Mike Taormina. New York: Semiotext(e), 2002.
—. Informaiton Bomb. London: Verso, 2005.
—. Speed and Politics. Lon Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2006.
Winner, Langdon. The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High
Technology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.