Salon Part II

Posted: August 26th, 2021

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Salon Part II

“Some Times of Space” by Doreen Massey

Massey brings forth an argument regarding space and time. Specifically, she argues about the inclusion of time(s) within space. To be more explicit, she offers an analysis of space-based on fixation of meaning, where she assigns representation and conceptualization as measures of intellect to be imagined. She employs the reasoning of Henri Bergson that space has times, and therefore the application of conceptualized imagination entails thinking about space and time in simultaneity and associations. Massey confirms that one cannot hold up things and places still. Instead, one can see an intersection of trajectories concerning meeting up histories, here and now.

            Accordingly, Massey illustrates her analogy by giving evidence of expectations concerning the study of weather patterns. With the allusion of meteorology in question, she provides a clear example of how time can affect space, thus resulting in an unpredictable series of chaos. For instance, she often visits southern France in Catalonia, where the region is influenced by unpredictable weather conditions, ranging from temperature, wind, rainfall, and storms. Hence, despite constant conveyances of information by the Met, the spatial times of this region are in doubt.

            Additionally, the most exciting thing in Massey’s analogy that I would love to analyze further is herviews of space as trajectories of times that bring about different histories and encounters. It is fascinating to see movement, encounters, and the making of relationships usually take time to bring about stability in space. Therefore, traveling from Liverpool to Manchester and back, one would find different histories, which have evolved (s).

            From the article, I have misunderstood the concept acknowledging that everything is constitutively in the process due to time(s). Her choice of mobility over stability, transience over the settlement, and flight over commitment and how nomadism flow concurrently replaces space of places.

“Life After New Media: Mediation as a Vital Process” by Sarah Kember and Joanna Zylinska

Kember and Zylinska bring forward an argument that the considerable shift in the new media results in the “lifeless” of the mediation rather than liveness.These authors focus on how the new media influences many aspects of life in respect to liveness, transience, and duration. Further, the writers advance their analogy that mediation processes offer the vitality of the media. As an example, they state that lifenessof the media, a factor of generating unprecedented networks and unforeseen events, is considered more potent than liveness of the press that only televises the disasters and newsworthy happenings.

            Equally, Kember and Zylinska incorporate the Hollywood and the customer scenario of Amazon as the best case studies of analyzing mediation as the vitality of the media. Notably, intervention goes back to remediation, where it attempts to embrace change and continuity of media as a better approach to advancing the spatialization of times, instead of just underpinning newer sets of technologies on historical experiences. Notably, the most exciting concept brought forth by Kember and Zylinska is remediation and its discontents. For example, the authors explain how the new media helps refashions the old media by creating a concept of immediacy and realism in the Hollywood Industry. Therefore, I would wish that the paper discusses at length on the technological convergence, where the new media advances the old press and that the future remains an inseparable continuation of the past.

            From the article, I do not comprehend the theory of original technicity. More so, with how it is always mediated concerning media and technologies. As much as the new media seems engrained in embracing media like the Internet and Webs, it is unconvincing to claim that the press would bring about stability in space despite the continuity of time(s).