本文從 Friedrich Kittler 以降的德國媒介理論重視物質論的思潮，作為思索／重構當代媒介研究的基礎。為具體開展此論辯過程，本文從媒體的「時態」問題出發，接合「變體學」的思考，以此揭示媒體的演進歷程與人的感知如何互動、特定的感覺如何浮現的可能性。

全文的論證架構分成五部分，第一，提出媒介研究的新倡議，以媒體的「時態」問題，接合「變體學」的思考，探詢媒體的演進歷程與人的感知如何互動的可能性；第二，提供傳統媒介研究格局的輪廓，按此輪廓勾勒出媒介與人的關係，形塑出媒介研究的系譜學，爾後，兼論 Friedrich Kittler 的思想論述，以此開拓出本文欲勾勒的媒介研究新格局是從科技的哲學研究轉至科技實踐哲學的研究；第三，從實踐哲學出發，探討何謂「媒體的時態」問題；第四部份，思索媒體考古學的論理基礎與範圍，並界定其建立在何種認識論基礎之上產生質變的轉向，如何作為當代藝術創作方法的實踐之一；最後，總結全文意旨，闡述變體學的思考，其實揭示了媒體本質處於一種不穩定的狀態，那麼意謂著我們須有全新的理論視野與方法思考，而藉由媒體考古學的思考，重構「新物質論」正是一可能的思索起點。

In this study, German media theory that emphasizes the ideological trends of materialism after Friedrich Kittler is the foundation for thinking/reconstructing contemporary media research. To concretely develop the debate processes, this study started from media’s “time tense” questions and integrated the thinking of “variantology” to reveal how media evolution interacted with human perception as well as the possibilities and methods for specific feelings to appear.

The argumentation architecture of this study could be divided into five parts. First is to propose new initiatives for media researches focusing on media’s “time tense” integrated with thinking of “variantology” so as to investigate potential interactions between media evolution and human perception; Second is to provide the outlines for traditional media research pattern. Based on these outlines, relationships between media and humans could be depicted to shape the genealogy of media research. Then, introduction of Kittler’s thinking and argument allows this study to outline that the new pattern of media research was altered from traditional technology philosophy to the practical philosophy of technology; Third, starting from practical philosophy of technology, questions about what is media’s “time tense” could be investigated; Fourth is to consider the argumentation basis and range to define that it is built on what kind of epistemological basis to cause turning with qualitative change as well as how it serve as one of the practical methods for contemporary creations; Finally, to summarize the intentions of this study, elaboration on the thinking of variantology actually reveal the fact that the nature of media stay in an unstable condition. This means that brand-new theories and ways of thinking are essential for us to reconstruct “new materialism” via the thinking of media archaeology, which may be one of the potential thinking start points.