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Journal Article
Turning Back Time: Friedrich Kittler, Reversibility, and Media of Time Axis Manipulation
2021
Overview
Fraser examines the relationship between modality and mediality, highlighting Friedrich Kittler's work. He asks what it is about technologies of recording, storage, and playback that allows their users to go well beyond simple reversals in manipulating temporal sequences. Observing that any medium that can be read or played back can and will be read or played backward, he focuses on the way in which repeatability and reversibility appear to go hand in hand. He argues that reversals of chronological sequence rely upon recording media's ability to spatialize stretches of time. He closes with a reading of some late Nietzsche fragments in which the brain is analogized to a telegraph operator and reversibility becomes crucial to the body's claim to be a medium in which time-serial data streams can be rearranged, a role Kittler insists that the body cannot play.
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Michigan State University Press
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