My “deep time” of media is written in a spirit of praise and commendation, not of critique. I am aware that this represents a break with the “proper” approach to history that I was taught at university. At center stage, I shall put people and their works; I shall, on occasion, wander off but always remain close to them. It does not bother me that this type of historiography may be criticized as romantic. We who have chosen to teach, research, and write all have our heroes and heroines. They are not necessarily the teachers who taught us or the masters they followed. The people I am concerned with here are people imbued with an enduring something that interests us passionately. I have by no means made a random selection; their work in reflection and experiment in the broad field of media has had enduring, rather than ephemeral, effects.
Autor, professor e pesquisador