Description: "Recovering largely forgotten and untranslated texts, Endless Intervals makes the case that cinema, rather than being a technology assaulting the psyche, is in fact the technology that produced the modern psyche. It considers the ways machines can create meaning, offering a fascinating theory of how the discontinuous intervals of soulless mechanisms ultimately produced a rich continuous experience of inner life"--
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"Articulating a powerful and provocative challenge to received wisdom about early film and its relations to digital technologies, Endless Intervals situates analog cinema's management of discrete images and operations as a necessary context for understanding contemporary debates over AI and its apparent ability to transform discontinuous states into continuous meaning. This is an important book that complicates neat media-historical narratives and media-theoretical distinctions alike."--Shane Denson, author of Discorrelated Image
"The idea behind Endless Intervals is rich and fascinating. Its great strength is that it offers a rich insight into the politics of the mind in Germany in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century."--Leonardo
"Endless Intervals has plenty to offer any reader interested in the history of computing, of the psy- sciences, and of cinema"--H-Net Reviews
"[Endless Intervals] provides a fascinating and deep exploration of the history and implications of this discrete nature of machine mediation, from the industrial to the digital revolutions, with implications for the coming artificial intelligence revolution."--ebr: Electronic Book Review