Open AccessSensing the ‘Contemporary Condition’: The Chronopolitics of Sensor-Media
Author(s) -
Sebastian Scholz
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
krisis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.183
H-Index - 6
eISSN - 1875-7103
pISSN - 0168-275X
DOI - 10.21827/krisis.41.1.36967
Subject(s) - affordance , temporalities , new media , relevance (law) , computer science , human–computer interaction , aesthetics , sociology , cognitive science , psychology , art , political science , law , world wide web
The article discusses the relevance of sensor-technologies as media. Beyond technical affordances sensors act as agents of implementing and activating a more-than-human sensorium within encompassing technoecologies of sensation. Outlining the onto-epistemological implications of being ‘in touch with’ sensor-media, the contribution raises questions of what it means to be included in an infrastructure of sensorial interfaces - not only of tech-assisted human-to-human or human-to-machine communication, but of unmanageable processes of machine-to-machine exchange. Delineating sensors as media necessitates reflections on the temporal relations that define the ‘contemporary condition’ of intensified global computation, technological interconnectedness and the ontogenesis of sensor-media milieus, their respective temporalities and concomitant (an)aesthetics of experienced time.