Issue #121 Shaky Distinctions: A Dialogue on the Digital and the Analog

Shaky Distinctions: A Dialogue on the Digital and the Analog

Alexander R. Galloway and Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan

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Possibly the earliest real-time computational imaging device, the World War I–era Sperry Battle Tracer. Data synthesized from across a battleship sketched a real-time image of the battlefield, including location and trajectory of the ship and its foe. Source: The Lucky Bag: The Annual Brigade of Midshipmen 23, ed. the Class of 1916 (AH Sickler Company, 1916), 483. 

Issue #121
October 2021










Notes
1

Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan, “An Ecology of Operations: Vigilance, Radar, and the Birth of the Computer Screen,” Representations 147, no. 1 (2019): 59–95.

2

Philip E. Agre, “Surveillance and Capture: Two Models of Privacy,” Information Society 10, no. 2 (April–June 1994): 101–27.

3

Friedrich Kittler, Optical Media (Polity, 2009), 226.

4

Sybille Krämer, “Was Dedeutet ‘Digitalisierung’?” (What Does “Digitization” Mean?) (presentation, “Beyond Technology: Perspectives of International Media Philosophy” workshop, Berlin, October 26, 2019).

5

See Mary Anne Doane, “Information, Crisis, Catastrophe,” in New Media, Old Media: A History and Theory Reader, ed. Wendy Hui Kyong Chun and Thomas Keenan (Routledge, 2006); Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, “Crisis, Crisis, Crisis, or Sovereignty and Networks,” Theory, Culture & Society 28, no. 6 (November 2011): 91–112.

6

See .

7

W. J. T. Mitchell, “There Are No Visual Media,” Journal of Visual Culture 4, no. 2 (August 2005): 257–66.