Document Type
Review
Abstract
[First paragraph]
Media philosopher Sigfried Zielinski’s book Deep Time and The Media “attempts to connect what is separated” with what is seen and unseen. Zielinski writes: "Media are spaces of action for constructed attempts to connect what is separated" (Zielinski, 2006, 7). Zielinski’s book draws upon Athanasius Kircher’s work, which emerged as a form of dialectics which bridge what is seen and the unseen. Kircher’s magnetic clocks and the Renaissance trepidation of the spheres point to centers of hegemonic structures… and comprise various interrelated and layered discursive formations of consonance. The physiognomy of the history of music and one could argue, of surveillance, through an account of its discursive formations, of consonance and dissonance, is revealed through technological apparatus and archaeology of seeing and hearing via theatrics “by technical means.” [1]
Repository Citation
Martindale, Lori M.. "Kircher’s Musurgia Universalis – The Optical Apparatus in the 'Theatrical' Court of Hamlet." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 12, no. 3, 2012, pp. 1–4. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol12/iss3/10