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Camera Silenta: Time Experiments, Media Networks, and the Experience of Organlessness (2013)

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Communication technology Telegraphs; telephones Physiology Laboratories Senses and sensation; perception Experimental psychology Experiments and experimentation 19th century United States France Wundt, Wilhelm Max

In order to communicate with isolated test subjects in physiological and psychological laboratories in the late nineteenth century, scholars such as Wilhelm Wundt, Edward W. Scripture, and Hendrik Zwaardemaker used modern technologies, in particular telegraphy. In a similar vein, Marcel Proust equipped his apartment with a soundproof room and a network of cables and switches in order to conduct his famous research on lost time. The combined use of the camera silenta and advanced communication technologies turned time experts around 1900 into spiders: without ears, eyes, or nose, they were waiting at the edge of an extended web of simultaneities for the slightest vibrations their bodies could receive. With Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, one could say that they experienced states of organlessness.

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Description On the use of advanced communication technologies in physiological and psychological laboratories in the late 19th century.

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Authors & Contributors
MacDougall, Robert Duncan
Beauchamp, Christopher
Brain, Robert Michael
Canales, Jimena
De Rijcke, Sarah
Dierig, Sven
Journals
History of Psychology
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
Technology and Culture
American Quarterly
Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences
British Journal for the History of Science
Publishers
Harvard University
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Duke University Press
Kluwer Academic
Springer
University of Washington Press
Concepts
Experimental psychology
Telegraphs; telephones
Communication technology
Physiology
Psychology
Senses and sensation; perception
People
Wundt, Wilhelm Max
Bell, Alexander Graham
Binet, Alfred
Du Bois-Reymond, Emil Heinrich
Friedrich, Max
Hertz, Mathilde
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
20th century
Places
United States
Germany
France
Berlin (Germany)
Alaska (U.S.)
Canada
Institutions
Laboratoire de Psychologie Physiologique de la Sorbonne
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