ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the shifting constellations of time and space in digitalized classrooms in Latin America, in line with the call for flashpoint epistemologies that interrupt the claims of unity and consistency. The approach, which is grounded mostly in German media studies, engages with a body of literature that embraces nonlinear temporal constellations and argues that media shapes time as much as time shapes media. Connecting these concepts to field notes from school research, it seeks to problematize the consideration of schools and digital media as binary opposites and of technologies as causation in a seemingly new interconnectedness. The analysis focuses on the tensions and elisions between analogue, digital, and image following two threads: the relationship to the present as an archival structure and the expansion of time-based media in classroom practices. The chapter argues that contemporary classrooms are complex sociotechnical networks in which time, bodies, and pedagogies are being reconfigured.
