{"product_id":"endless-intervals-cinema-psychology-and-semiotechnics-around-1900-hardback-9781517912536","title":"Endless Intervals; Cinema, Psychology, and Semiotechnics Around 1900 (Hardback) 9781517912536","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eEndless Intervals\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eCinema, Psychology, and Semiotechnics Around 1900\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJeffrey West Kirkwood (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781517912536\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 25 October 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2.5 cm, 0.227 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"Articulating a powerful and provocative challenge to received wisdom about early film and its relations to digital technologies, \u003ci\u003eEndless Intervals\u003c\/i\u003e situates analog cinema’s management of discrete images and operations as a necessary context for understanding contemporary debates over AI and its apparent ability to transform discontinuous states into continuous meaning. This is an important book that complicates neat media-historical narratives and media-theoretical distinctions alike.\"-Shane Denson, author of \u003ci\u003eDiscorrelated Image\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"The idea behind \u003ci\u003eEndless Intervals\u003c\/i\u003e is rich and fascinating. Its great strength is that it offers a rich insight into the politics of the mind in Germany in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.\"-\u003ci\u003eLeonardo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRevealing cinema’s place in the coevolution of media technology and the human\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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\n\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\n\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\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Signifying Nothings\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. Engineering the Interval\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2. The Semiotechnical Subject\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3. Discrete Reading\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4. The Technics of \u003ci\u003eBildung\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5. The Cinema of Afflictions\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCoda: Where the Intervals End\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52619256529176,"sku":"9781517912536","price":67.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/endless-intervals-cinema-psychology-and-semiotechnics-around-1900-hardback-9781517912536","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}