Exposure time, the Aura, and Telerobotics

Authors

  • Marina Gržinić Mauhler

Keywords:

epistemology, the aura, exposure time, telerobotics

Abstract

This text focuses on the notions of exposure time and the photographic aura in the context of Internet telerobotics. It examines the aesthetic, political, artistic, and epistemological impact of the technological transition from an exposure lasting several hours to only a fraction of a second, which for Walter Benjamin marked the gradual evaporation of “aura” from the image. Current limitations of telerobotic technology today - delays in transmission-time, busy signals from service providers, crashing web browsers - can be seen as restoring the aura, and with it our sense of space and time.

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Published

2016-01-11

How to Cite

Gržinić Mauhler, M. (2016). Exposure time, the Aura, and Telerobotics. Filozofski Vestnik, 23(3). Retrieved from https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/filozofski-vestnik/article/view/3568

Issue

Vol. 23 No. 3 (2002): Philosophy and Scientific Revolution, Aesthetics, Empire and Society of Control

Section

Esthetics

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