Media infrastructures and the politics of digital time : essays on hardwired temporalities Frontmatter Table of Contents Acknowledgments Infrastructures of Time: An Introduction to Hardwired Temporalities Part I Media Philosophies of Time Patterning 1. The Suspension of Irreversibility: The Fundamental (and Futile) Task of Media 2. Time and Technology: The Temporalities of Care 3. Problems of Temporality in the Digital Epoch 4. Suspending the “Time Domain” : Technological Tempor(e)alities of Media Infrastructures Part II Microtimes 5. Infrastructuring Leap Seconds : The Regime of Temporal Plurality in Digitally Networked Media 6. Life at the Femtosecond 7. Artificial Intelligence and the Temporality of Machine Images 8. Intervals of Intervention : Micro Decisions and the Temporal Autonomy of Self Driving Cars Part III Lifetimes 9. Grounded Speed and the Soft Temporality of Network Infrastructure 10. Unruly Bodies of Code in Time 11. Screwed: Anxiety and the Digital Ends of Anticipation 12. Beep: Listening to the Digital Watch Part IV Futures 13. Captured Time: Eye Tracking and the Attention Economy 14. Ahead of Time : The Infrastructure of Amazon’s Anticipatory Shipping Method 15. Artificial Neural Networks Postdigital Infrastructures and the Politics of Temporality 16. Technics of Time: Values in Future Internet Development Index Digital media everyday inscribe new patterns of time promising instant communication synchronous collaboration intricate time management and profound new advantages in speed. The essays in this volume reconsider these outward interfaces of convenience by calling attention to their supporting infrastructures the networks of digital time that exert pressures of conformity and standardization on the temporalities of lived experience and have important ramifications for social relations stratifications of power practices of cooperation and ways of life. Interdisciplinary in method and international in scope the volume draws together insights from media and communication studies cultural studies and science and technology studies while staging an important encounter between two distinct approaches to the temporal patterning of media infrastructures a North American strain emphasizing the social and cultural experiences of lived time and a European tradition prominent especially in Germany focusing on technological time and time critical processes.