The Eye of Time:

Histories of Representation, Perception, and Archiving in Cybernetic Thought

 

I am a historian of science and a media theorist currently working as an assistant professor at The New School for Social Research.

 

I work on histories of perception, representation, and new media. My current book is a historical and philosophical excavation into the relationship between the archive, memory, and perception in digital systems. Using the post-war science of cybernetics—the study of communication and control—as a point of departure, I trace out how early engineers and architects of human-machine interaction, such as Norbert Wiener and Warren McCulloch, were informed by, and reformulated, different theoretical and technical practices from 19th and early 20th century film, psychology, psychoanalysis, design, and philosophy. Through this practice, I chart the relationship between contemporary obsessions with archiving and interactivity in digital systems to previous modernist concerns with temporality, representation, and memory. Read the full abstract >

 

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Orit Halpern

Assistant Professor

Committee on Historical Studies

The New School for Social Research

80 Fifth Avenue

Room 507

New York, NY. 10011

e: orit@post.harvard.edu