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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Contact Information:
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
