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The Time-Space Dimensions and Geometrical Spaces of Electronic Media Technologies

전자 미디어 기술의 시공간 차원과 기하 공간

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Abstract

This paper reviews how electronic media technologies involve and produce time-space dimensions in geometrical spaces, focusing on four theoretical perspectives: van Dijk's dual structure of networks as scale extension and reduction; Latour's actor-networks as fluid and hybrid networks; Virilio's dromospherical time as global media vectors; and Castells' timeless time as non-sequential flows. In these four theoretical perspectives, we can see that electronic media technologies involve different and multiple time-space dimensions in geometrical media spaces: from the two-dimensional spaces (surfaces) of concentric circles, through the one-dimensional spaces (lines) of actor-networks to the zero-dimensional spaces (points) of dromospherical time and finally to the multi-dimensional spaces (hypertexts) of timeless time. The paper concludes by suggesting that we need to explain electronic media spaces not only in terms of geometrical media spaces but also in terms of geographical media spaces in order to understand the ways in which electronic media spaces are dis/embedded in geographical spaces.

이 글은 전자 미디어 기술이 기하 공간에서 시공간 차원을 어떻게 수반하고 생산하는지를 네 가지 이론적 관점에 초점을 두면서 고찰한다: 반 딕의 규모의 확장과 수축으로서 네트워크의 이중구조; 라투어의 유동적이고 혼종적 네트워크로서 행위자-네트워크; 비릴리오의 지구적 미디어 벡터로서 속도권 시간; 그리고 카스텔의 비순차적 흐름으로서 초월적 시간. 이들 네 가지 이론적 관점에서, 우리는 전자 미디어 기술이 기하 미디어 공간에서 상이하고 다중적인 시공간 차원을 수반한다는 것을 알 수 있다: 동심원의 이차원 공간 (면), 행위자-네트워크의 일차원 공간 (선), 속도권 시간의 영차원 공간 (점), 그리고 초월적 시간의 다중차원 공간 (하이퍼텍스트). 전자 미디어 공간이 지리적 공간에서 탈/토착화되는 방식을 이해하기 위해서는 우리는 전자 미디어 공간을 기하 미디어공간뿐만 아니라 지리 미디어 공간에서 설명할 필요가 있음을 제시하면서 이 글은 끝맺는다.

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