Justin T Clark
Biographic Data
| ID | 3977781 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Justin T Clark |
| GIVEN NAMES | Justin T |
| FAMILY NAME | Clark |
| SIGNATURE | CLARK J T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nanyang Technological University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Souls in Debt: The Transformation of Carceral Punishment in Early Eighteenth-Century New England
Can we teach undergraduates the history of time
This essay examines the author's experience since 2018 in developing and teaching a third-year undergraduate course on the history of time at a Singapore university, for students specializing in East and Southeast Asian history and the history of technology. History courses are traditionally taught in a chronological format, with clear periodization, and a nearly exclusive focus on written and audiovisual "texts." The author has found that such a…
Seeing time
Deploying ‘all[-]important moments’: Seeing time in Duke University’s collections of early North American advertisements
Motionless pictures: The waiting public in popular American visual culture, 1870-1930
In recent years, scholars have paid increasing attention to the histories of waiting, particularly in medicine, business, politics, and culture. This essay contributes to that history by tracing the evolving visual representation of waiting in popular American culture between 1870 and 1930. As contemporary illustrators, photographers and artists interpreted a metropolitan landscape populated by waiting subjects, they helped inscribe an increasing…
Peter John Brownlee. The Commerce of Vision: Optical Culture and Perception in Antebellum America
Crammed with Barnumesque hoaxes, puffing advertisements, theatrical illusions, and counterfeit goods, the antebellum American marketplace demanded sharp eyes indeed. In navigating that marketplace, the physiological eye also became a crucial commodity within it. Corrected, exploited, satirized, exhausted, and restored, “vision was both produced and consumed,” as Peter John Brownlee tells us in The Commerce of Vision: Optical Culture and Perceptio…
The secret of quick thinking: The invention of mental speed in America, 1890-1925
In the early 20th century, mental speed became a dominant measure of intelligence in the United States. For both cultural and technical reasons, this had not always been the case. For 19th-century Americans, quickness of speech and thought often signified lack of self-discipline. Unlike with other objects of temporal measurement and rationalization such as factory work, little scientific or popular consensus existed over how to clock the invisibl…
The secret of quick thinking: The invention of mental speed in America, 1890-1925
In the early 20th century, mental speed became a dominant measure of intelligence in the United States. For both cultural and technical reasons, this had not always been the case. For 19th-century Americans, quickness of speech and thought often signified lack of self-discipline. Unlike with other objects of temporal measurement and rationalization such as factory work, little scientific or popular consensus existed over how to clock the invisibl…
Motionless pictures: The waiting public in popular American visual culture, 1870-1930
In recent years, scholars have paid increasing attention to the histories of waiting, particularly in medicine, business, politics, and culture. This essay contributes to that history by tracing the evolving visual representation of waiting in popular American culture between 1870 and 1930. As contemporary illustrators, photographers and artists interpreted a metropolitan landscape populated by waiting subjects, they helped inscribe an increasing…
Peter John Brownlee. The Commerce of Vision: Optical Culture and Perception in Antebellum America
Crammed with Barnumesque hoaxes, puffing advertisements, theatrical illusions, and counterfeit goods, the antebellum American marketplace demanded sharp eyes indeed. In navigating that marketplace, the physiological eye also became a crucial commodity within it. Corrected, exploited, satirized, exhausted, and restored, “vision was both produced and consumed,” as Peter John Brownlee tells us in The Commerce of Vision: Optical Culture and Perceptio…
The secret of quick thinking: The invention of mental speed in America, 1890-1925
In the early 20th century, mental speed became a dominant measure of intelligence in the United States. For both cultural and technical reasons, this had not always been the case. For 19th-century Americans, quickness of speech and thought often signified lack of self-discipline. Unlike with other objects of temporal measurement and rationalization such as factory work, little scientific or popular consensus existed over how to clock the invisibl…
Seeing time
Deploying ‘all[-]important moments’: Seeing time in Duke University’s collections of early North American advertisements
Motionless pictures: The waiting public in popular American visual culture, 1870-1930
In recent years, scholars have paid increasing attention to the histories of waiting, particularly in medicine, business, politics, and culture. This essay contributes to that history by tracing the evolving visual representation of waiting in popular American culture between 1870 and 1930. As contemporary illustrators, photographers and artists interpreted a metropolitan landscape populated by waiting subjects, they helped inscribe an increasing…
Can we teach undergraduates the history of time
This essay examines the author's experience since 2018 in developing and teaching a third-year undergraduate course on the history of time at a Singapore university, for students specializing in East and Southeast Asian history and the history of technology. History courses are traditionally taught in a chronological format, with clear periodization, and a nearly exclusive focus on written and audiovisual "texts." The author has found that such a…
Souls in Debt: The Transformation of Carceral Punishment in Early Eighteenth-Century New England
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