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.
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Wolfgang Schivelbusch
historian · 2 mentions across 1 reading
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Schivelbusch is a historian of technology and perception who analyzed how the railroad fundamentally restructured human experience of time and space in the nineteenth century, coining the phrase "annihilation of time and space" to describe this epistemic shift. In this course's framework, his work provides historical precedent for understanding how contemporary technologies—particularly AI and computational systems—similarly reshape perception and cognition, offering a genealogy for thinking about technological mediation as always already transformative of human consciousness rather than merely instrumental.
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