Article ID: CBB001320388

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

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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
Benoît Dayrat
Reynolds, Sarah Jozina
Jean-François Fava-Verde
Fretwell, Erica
Cristalli, Claudia
Concepts
Communication technology
Experimental psychology
Telegraphs; telephones
Experiments and experimentation
Senses and sensation; perception
Physiology
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
Places
United States
Germany
France
Leipzig (Germany)
Russia
Europe
Institutions
Station Biologique de Roscoff (France)
Laboratoire de Psychologie Physiologique de la Sorbonne
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