{"product_id":"endless-intervals-cinema-psychology-and-semiotechnics-around-1900-paperback","title":"Endless Intervals: Cinema, Psychology, and Semiotechnics Around 1900 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJeffrey West Kirkwood\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRevealing cinema's place in the coevolution of media technology and the human\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCinema did not die with the digital, it gave rise to it. According to Jeffrey West Kirkwood, the notion that digital technologies replaced analog obscures how the earliest cinema laid the technological and philosophical groundwork for the digital world. In \u003ci\u003eEndless Intervals, \u003c\/i\u003e he introduces a theory of semiotechnics that explains how discrete intervals of machines came to represent something like a mind--and why they were feared for their challenge to the uniqueness of human intelligence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExamining histories of early cinematic machines, Kirkwood locates the foundations for a scientific vision of the psyche as well as the information age. He theorizes an epochal shift in the understanding of mechanical stops, breaks, and pauses that demonstrates how cinema engineered an entirely new model of the psyche--a model that was at once mechanical and semiotic, discrete and continuous, physiological and psychological, analog and digital.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRecovering largely forgotten and untranslated texts, \u003ci\u003eEndless Intervals\u003c\/i\u003e makes the case that cinema, rather than being a technology assaulting the psyche, is in fact the technology that produced the modern psyche. Kirkwood considers the ways machines can create meaning, offering a fascinating theory of how the discontinuous intervals of soulless mechanisms ultimately produced a rich continuous experience of inner life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJeffrey West Kirkwood is associate professor of art history at Binghamton University and fellow at Cornell University's Society for the Humanities. He is coeditor of Ernst Kapp's \u003ci\u003eElements of a Philosophy of Technology\u003c\/i\u003e (Minnesota, 2018).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 8.43 x 5.43 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 25, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47461855101106,"sku":"9781517912543","price":50.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/9553c9ee3802b2dbad7f2c3e7771d47d.webp?v=1778956787","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/endless-intervals-cinema-psychology-and-semiotechnics-around-1900-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}