All Together Now
Synchronization, Speed, and the Failure of Narrativity
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 7797014 |
|---|---|
| Autores | G C Bowker (0000-0002-7920-0413, University of California, Irvine, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2014 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Fascículo | 4 |
| Páginas | 563-576 |
| Data de publicação | 2014-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | History and Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0018-2656 • E-ISSN: 1468-2303 |
| Editora | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/hith.10731 |
| OpenAlex | W2014410863 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 6 |
This paper looks at interconnections between social, scientific, and technical time over the period since the Enlightenment. The underlying argument is that each of these can be woven into a single narrative of our experience and description of time over that period. In particular, I maintain that the synchronization of social and natural time into ever smaller, interchangeable units has culminated today in the evacuation of the narrative of progress in favor of an ideology of the eternal present. Contra technologically determinist characterizations that claim a fundamental historical disjuncture occurring with the development of computers, I claim that this timeless present has historical roots going back to the origin of industrial societies through the age of Victorian certainty to our current epoch. The multiple times described here are argued to be telling a single story. I demonstrate this through developing a historiographical principle of infrastructural inversion, which foregrounds a common set of “ techniques dispositifs ” operating in the apparently separate worlds of science and industry. The assertion here is that our experiences and perceptions of time are deeply imbricated in our information infrastructures. I further argue that these ideological charged times are not hegemonic; they merely describe a motivating managerial vision of a proximate future
Aesthetics · Argument (complex analysis) · Assertion · Enlightenment · Epistemology · Hegemony · Historiography · Ideology · Literature · Narrative · Narrativity · Period (music) · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · History · History of Computing Technologies · History of Science and Medicine · Information Systems Theories and Implementation · Law · Philosophy
| Obras citantes distintas | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citações por ano | 0,6 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Velocidade de citação | current |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 5 |