with Sina Steglich J. W. M. Turner, Rain, steam, and speed (1844, Wikimedia Commons) In the 19th century, technological innovations brought about new conceptions of time. The idea of modernity redefined the contemporaries’ relationship with the past. State institutions began a systematic reorganization of their archives, which started to function as the main repository of … Continue reading #030 – Archives and Temporality in the 19th century