Examining technological change in an earlier era of human history, Wolfgang Schivelbusch (2014) describes how the advent of the railroad changed the way humans perceive time and space. “Annihilation of time and space was the topos which the…Merleau-Ponty, M. (2015). Phenomenology of perception. London: Forgotten Books.
Maturana, H., & Varela, F. (1992). The tree of knowledge: The biological roots of human understanding. Boston: Shambhala Publications.
Mauldin, D. B. (2011). …
Wolfgang Schivelbusch
historian · 2 mentions across 1 reading
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Schivelbusch is a historian of technology who examines how infrastructural innovations reshape human perception and temporality, particularly through his study of how railroads transformed nineteenth-century experience of space and time. The course readings invoke his work to ground a historical precedent for understanding how contemporary technologies—algorithms, AI systems, network architectures—similarly reorganize consciousness and social experience through what he calls the "annihilation of time and space." His framework enables the seminar to position current technological disruption not as unprecedented but as continuous with earlier waves of media and transport systems that reconfigured human perception.
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