Media Philology

Philology (and thus also media philology) is always a question of time. It is a question of the difference between the time of life and the time of reading, a question of the temporal specificity of the (material) objects of philology, and a question of remembering and forgetting of life’s contexts and of the need for commentary. This lecture will focus first on the media of philology (that is, on the things and practices in which philological operations are materialized) and then on the objects of philology, which due to their media-specific features, themselves incorporate a variety of temporal structures. How are digital objects now changing the temporal order of philology and its historical difference? And how are digital media reconfiguring the structures of work and time that define philological activity?

This Lecture is Free and Open to the public