The Presentist Media Landscape and the Practice of Doing History

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Notes

248 US 215 (1918).

Douglas Rushkoff, Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now (New York: Penguin Group, 2013), 2.

“Presentism is the doctrine that everything is present; put another way, it is the claim that that, and only that, which is present exists. Presentists are typically opposed by eternalists, who argue that all times, and their contents, are equally real: the past and future are as much a part of the ‘furniture of reality’ as is the present.” M. Joshua Mozersky, “Presentism,” in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Time, ed. Craig Callender (New York: Oxford Press, 2011), 122.

David Hackett Fischer, Historians’ Fallacies: Toward a Logic of Historical Thought (New York: Harper & Row, 1970), 135–140.

Mozersky, 1–2. See also Adrian Bardon, ed., The Future of the Philosophy of Time (New York: Routledge, 2012); Dan Falk, In Search of Time: The History, Physics, and Philosophy of Time (New York: St. Martins, 2008).

Rushkoff, Present Shock, 2–3.

Rushkoff, Present Shock, 6.

Mark Turner, The Literary Mind (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998).

Michael Warner, The Letters of the Republic: Publication and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth Century America (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992).

Rushkoff, Present Shock, 44.

John Lewis Gaddis, The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), 17.

Ibid., 81.

Rushkoff, Present Shock, 44–47.

Jurgen Habermas, The Theory of Communicative Action, Volume 1 (Boston: Beacon Press, 1984), 342.

Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995), 80–81.

Rushkoff, Present Shock, 53.

Ibid., 136.

Ibid.

Ibid., 137.

Ibid., 138.

Ibid., 140.

Ibid., 200.

Ibid., 209.

Ibid., 202.

See William A. Green, “Periodization in European and World History,” Journal of World History 3, no. 1 (Spring 1992).

Evgeny Morozov, To Save Everything Click Here (New York: Public Affairs, 2013).

Rushkoff, Present Shock, 264.