Class History of the Media

It is assumed that, in the context of human history, a set of tools, techniques and communication protocols constituted (and constitute) that history, both in the way they altered culture, society and human perception / consciousness, as well as they define, as artifacts, modes of presentation and access to that history. From language and writing to computers and cyber networks, through clocks, calendars, towers, perspective or meteorology, all these medialogical devices determined paradigms of relationship - verbal and non-verbal - between humans and between humans and the world. This Curricular Unit seeks to trace the historical evolution of these material ways of configuring communication throughout history, identifying key moments in this course.

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0. Towards a materialist history of communication 1. Orality The zero degree of communication  The ritualization of the “acoustic world” 2. Alphabet and Writing “From the magical world of hearing to the neutral world of sight” Writing as ordering of the world: the formalization of thought 3. Book Volumen - codex - volumen The book as the first medium 4. Press From Gutenberg to Luther The foundation of the modern world and the circulation of knowledge 5. At a distance communication: terrestrial energies and the case of sound Telegraphy as a network communication paradigm Recording/reproduction: the phonograph and the real, the gramophone and ubiquity 6. Photography and Cinema The multiplication of images and the recording of time The rediscovery of the optical and the (new) motives of the real 7. Radio and Television The paradigm of mass media Television as “mobile privatization” 8. Computation and the Internet From Jacquard and Babbage to Turing and Bush WEB 1.0, 2.0 e 3.0 Planetary Computation, IoT and IA      

Cross-sectional, diachronic, and non-linear analysis of disruptive moments in the history of the media.

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