The Counted Time
Technical Temporalities and Their Challenges to History
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4496360 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pedro Telles Da Silveira (0000-0001-7576-5241, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 403-426 |
| Publication date | 2023-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History and Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2656 • E-ISSN: 1468-2303 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/hith.12309 |
| OpenAlex | W4380482344 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
One of the main debates regarding historical representation within digital media concerns narrative, particularly the difficulty in articulating it. Digital technologies are usually presented as opposed to linear, written narratives, which is of consequence to historical writing. Despite the many merits of scholarly approaches that try to circumvent this difficulty, the lack of theoretical understanding of the categories implied in such discussions is noticeable. To counter this, this article addresses the relationship between time, technics, and narrative. I contend that the challenges of crafting narratives in digital media conceal a problem pertaining to the relationship between time and technics. Drawing on Paul Ricoeur's work on narrative, Jimena Canales's studies of the history of science, Wolfgang Ernst's and Yuk Hui's discussions of technical temporality, and Bernard Stiegler's understanding of the relationship between time and technics, I argue that it is the temporality imbued in the workings of technical objects (such as computers) that renders them averse to narrative. In making this argument, I employ the notion of "counted time" (in contrast to Ricoeur's "narrative time") to denote a temporal mode that, despite its intersections with social, human temporality, is alien to narrative
Aesthetics · Argument (complex analysis) · Art · B-theory of time · Epistemology · Literature · Mode (computer interface) · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics) · Sociology · Temporalities · Temporality · Computer Science · Digital Humanities and Scholarship · History · Law · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |