“And motion pictures changed the relationship to time farther; they made it possible to step in the same river twice, to see not just images but events that had happened in other times and other places, almost to stop living where you were and start living in other places or other times.”
“Perhaps because California has no past-no past, at least, that it is willing to remember- it has always been peculiarly adapt at trailblazing the future.”
“It is as though the Victorians were striving to recover the sense of place they had lost when their lives accelerated, when they became disembodied.”
Why was it that in the 1800’s there were so many technological advances? Photography, the railroad, and the finding of Earth’s precise age.
Were the original intentions of inventions such as photography, railroads, and telegraphs to replace human interaction fully?
Solnit often writes that “Victorians were striving to recover...place”, would her statement be applicable to the modern day? Do we save photographs and videos because we long for those particular times?
"And motion pictures changed the relationship to time farther. They made it possible to step in the same river twice, to see not just images but events that had happened in other times and places, almost to stop living where you were and start living in other places or other times." p. 4
"Perhaps because California has no past—no past, at least that it is willing to remember–it has always been peculiarly adept at trailblazing the future. We live in the future launched there." p. 6
"The landscape itself were being devoured by speed." p. 10
Question 1: How will we have to adjust if and when autonomous vehicles take over?
Question 2: What if mass shootings are replaced by hackers taking control of those vehicles to run people over?
Question 3: It's 2017. We were promised jet packs and Martian colonies. What happened?
Cinema "became how people envisioned themselves and the world, defined what they desired and what was desirable." -- "A collective dreamworld inhabited by multitudes."
Photography "did not impose itself on the world but interpreted it."
"He had captured aspects of motion whose speed had made them invisible." -- "It was as if he had grasped time and made it stand still."
"One need not live quite in the present or the local."
1. Was the invention of photography also what began our obsession with nostalgia? The past? Romanticism?
2. Did it exist before in different forms? If so, I wonder what those were and what it felt like.
3. Before cinema: I wonder if people fantasized about different lives/worlds for themselves. Since everything was local before photography, cinema, and trains. No one knew anything beyond what is within walking distance from them. So I would imagine not? But it's human nature to fantasize, right? I wonder what it looked like/felt like for people before these inventions.
response to question 3: They had illustrations, newspapers and captivating non- fiction writers(books) where imagination was the main facilitator of escapism.
"Time was at his command" in his ability to stop, rewind and play it again.
"They changed it from a world of places and materials to a world of representations and information, a world of vastly greater reach and less solid grounding."
"The world began to shrink and local differences to dissipate."
1) How does photography effect human imagination? 2) How does photography effect traditions of faith and myth? 3) Alienation is often a bi-product of mass connection. In what ways was alienation felt then compared to now?
"And motion pictures changed the relationship to time farther. They made it possible to step in the same river twice, to see not just images but events that had happened in other times and places, almost to stop living where you were and start living in other places or other times." p. 4
"Passengers found the landscape out the train window was blurred, impossible to contemplate, erased by speeds that would now seem a slow crawl to us." Pg 9
"People were being drawn out of their small familiar worlds into one more free, less personal, in which the associations that once attached to each person, place or object came undone. It was a leap forward in extraordinary liberation and equal alienation." Pg 11
1)Similar to how individual's first experiences of riding a modern train revolutionized their perspectives on the world what are some of the advances in technologies or experiences you've had within your life that have effected you in a similar way?
2) Can you think of any modern technologies that create the same deep connectedness and isolation as the way train travel is described in this article?
3)This article mentions the "engineering" feats of photography, when does photography transition from a mechanical to an artistic processs?
"Annihilating time and space most directly means accelerating communications and transportation."
"Before the new technologies and ideas, time was a river in which human beings were immersed, moving steadily on the current, never faster than the speeds of nature, of currents, of wind, of muscles. Trains liberated them from the flow of the river, or isolated them from it."
"Photography was a profound transformation of the world it entered. Before, every face, every place, every event, had been unique, seen only once and then lost forever among the changes of age, light, and time."
1.) Will the rate in which human technology and communication systems are evolving continue to grow exponentially?
2.) The inventions of agriculture, roads, writing, trains, all seemed to be created out of the desire to better human life, but have humans come to a point where some of our modern technologies have almost made life too easy to where many people live unhealthy lives?
3.) Is there any danger in how much we depend on the transportation and communication systems around us in the modern age?
“And motion pictures changed the relationship to time farther; they made it possible to step in the same river twice, to see not just images but events that had happened in other times and other places, almost to stop living where you were and start living in other places or other times.”
ReplyDelete“Perhaps because California has no past-no past, at least, that it is willing to remember- it has always been peculiarly adapt at trailblazing the future.”
“It is as though the Victorians were striving to recover the sense of place they had lost when their lives accelerated, when they became disembodied.”
Why was it that in the 1800’s there were so many technological advances? Photography, the railroad, and the finding of Earth’s precise age.
Were the original intentions of inventions such as photography, railroads, and telegraphs to replace human interaction fully?
Solnit often writes that “Victorians were striving to recover...place”, would her statement be applicable to the modern day? Do we save photographs and videos because we long for those particular times?
"And motion pictures changed the relationship to time farther. They made it possible to step in the same river twice, to see not just images but events that had happened in other times and places, almost to stop living where you were and start living in other places or other times." p. 4
ReplyDelete"Perhaps because California has no past—no past, at least that it is willing to remember–it has always been peculiarly adept at trailblazing the future. We live in the future launched there." p. 6
"The landscape itself were being devoured by speed." p. 10
Question 1: How will we have to adjust if and when autonomous vehicles take over?
Question 2: What if mass shootings are replaced by hackers taking control of those vehicles to run people over?
Question 3: It's 2017. We were promised jet packs and Martian colonies. What happened?
Cinema "became how people envisioned themselves and the world, defined what they desired and what was desirable." -- "A collective dreamworld inhabited by multitudes."
ReplyDeletePhotography "did not impose itself on the world but interpreted it."
"He had captured aspects of motion whose speed had made them invisible." -- "It was as if he had grasped time and made it stand still."
"One need not live quite in the present or the local."
1. Was the invention of photography also what began our obsession with nostalgia? The past? Romanticism?
2. Did it exist before in different forms? If so, I wonder what those were and what it felt like.
3. Before cinema: I wonder if people fantasized about different lives/worlds for themselves. Since everything was local before photography, cinema, and trains. No one knew anything beyond what is within walking distance from them. So I would imagine not? But it's human nature to fantasize, right? I wonder what it looked like/felt like for people before these inventions.
response to question 3: They had illustrations, newspapers and captivating non- fiction writers(books) where imagination was the main facilitator of escapism.
Delete"Time was at his command" in his ability to stop, rewind and play it again.
ReplyDelete"They changed it from a world of places and materials to a world of representations and information, a world of vastly greater reach and less solid grounding."
"The world began to shrink and local differences to dissipate."
1) How does photography effect human imagination?
2) How does photography effect traditions of faith and myth?
3) Alienation is often a bi-product of mass connection. In what ways was alienation felt then compared to now?
"And motion pictures changed the relationship to time farther. They made it possible to step in the same river twice, to see not just images but events that had happened in other times and places, almost to stop living where you were and start living in other places or other times." p. 4
ReplyDelete"Passengers found the landscape out the train window was blurred, impossible to contemplate, erased by speeds that would now seem a slow crawl to us." Pg 9
"People were being drawn out of their small familiar worlds into one more free, less personal, in which the associations that once attached to each person, place or object came undone. It was a leap forward in extraordinary liberation and equal alienation." Pg 11
1)Similar to how individual's first experiences of riding a modern train revolutionized their perspectives on the world what are some of the advances in technologies or experiences you've had within your life that have effected you in a similar way?
2) Can you think of any modern technologies that create the same deep connectedness and isolation as the way train travel is described in this article?
3)This article mentions the "engineering" feats of photography, when does photography transition from a mechanical to an artistic processs?
"And motion pictures changed the relationship to time farther"
ReplyDelete"The relationship to the natural world and the industrialization of the human"
"railroads transformed the experience of nature and the landscape itself"
1. What are some connections between the invention of the train and modern technological advancements?
2. What is the difference between photos taken for art and photos taken for other purposes?
3. How does and how has photography changed your everyday life?
"Annihilating time and space most directly means accelerating communications and transportation."
ReplyDelete"Before the new technologies and ideas, time was a river in which human beings were immersed, moving steadily on the current, never faster than the speeds of nature, of currents, of wind, of muscles. Trains liberated them from the flow of the river, or isolated them from it."
"Photography was a profound transformation of the world it entered. Before, every face, every place, every event, had been unique, seen only once and then lost forever among the changes of age, light, and time."
1.) Will the rate in which human technology and communication systems are evolving continue to grow exponentially?
2.) The inventions of agriculture, roads, writing, trains, all seemed to be created out of the desire to better human life, but have humans come to a point where some of our modern technologies have almost made life too easy to where many people live unhealthy lives?
3.) Is there any danger in how much we depend on the transportation and communication systems around us in the modern age?