Tensions and Convergences

Andreas Kaminski; Marcus Stippak; Alexander Unger; Marc Ziegler; Reinhard Heil

doi:10.14361/9783839405185

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Copyright year: 2015
ISBN-Print: 978-3-89942-518-5
ISBN-Online: 978-3-8394-0518-5
Publisher: transcript, Bielefeld
Series: Science Studies
Volume: 0
Language: English
Pages: 367
Product type: Edited Book

FrontmatterPages 1 - 4 Andreas Kaminski, Marcus Stippak, Alexander Unger, Marc Ziegler, Reinhard Heil Download chapter (PDF)
Table of contentsPages 5 - 8 Andreas Kaminski, Marcus Stippak, Alexander Unger, Marc Ziegler, Reinhard Heil Download chapter (PDF)
Preface No access Pages 9 - 22 Andreas Kaminski, Marcus Stippak, Alexander Unger, Marc Ziegler, Reinhard Heil
Technical Gadgetry. Technological Development in the Aesthetic Economy No access Pages 23 - 36 Gernot Böhme
Aesthetic Precision No access Pages 37 - 46 Kathryn M. Olesko
Architecture in the Mirror of Technology. The Rhetoric of Le Corbusier and the Futurist Movement No access Pages 47 - 58 Peter Timmerman
Readerless Media: Modernism, Information Theory, and the Commodity No access Pages 59 - 68 Heather Fielding
Mass Aesthetics, Technicist Expansionism and the Ambivalence of Posthumanist Cultural Thought No access Pages 69 - 82 Thomas Borgard
Transhumanist Arts. Aesthetics of the Future? Parallels to 19<sup>th</sup> Century Dandyism No access Pages 83 - 92 Melanie Grundmann
Art in the Age of Biotechnology No access Pages 93 - 104 Ingeborg Reichle
Cultural Aspects of Interface Design No access Pages 105 - 116 Laurent Mignonneau, Christa Sommerer
Imaging Reality. On the Performativity of Imagination No access Pages 117 - 128 Marc Ziegler
Causality, Custom and the Marvellous. On Natural Science at the Beginning of Modern Times No access Pages 129 - 140 Andreas Kaminski
Growth of Biofacts: The Real Thing or Metaphor? No access Pages 141 - 152 Nicole C. Karafyllis
The Brain as Icon - Reflections on the Representation of Brain Imaging on American Television, 1984-2002 No access Pages 153 - 162 Thomas Sieverts, Jürgen Link, Nicole C. Karafyllis, Stefan Kaufmann, Gernot Böhme, Ingeborg Reichle, Kathryn M. Olesko, Peter Timmerman, Heather Fielding, Thomas Borgard, Melanie Grundmann, Andrea zur Nieden, Aristotle Tympas, Wolfgang Krohn, Katja Stoetzer, Dominique Gillebeert, Stefan Krebs, Cordula Dittmer, Christian Kehrt, Martina Heßler, Nik Brown, Christa Sommerer
"If There is a Risk Inside of Me, I am the First Person who Should Know About it." - Images of ''Genetic Risks'' as Anticipation of the Future No access Pages 163 - 172 Andrea zur Nieden
From the Historical Continuity of the Engineering Imaginary to an Anti- Essentialist Conception of the Mechanical-Electrical Relationship No access Pages 173 - 184 Aristotle Tympas
Architectural Structuralism and a New Mode of Knowledge Production No access Pages 185 - 198 Martina Heßler
Some Notes on Aesthetics in a ''Städtebau'' on a Regional Scale No access Pages 199 - 212 Thomas Sieverts, Jürgen Link, Nicole C. Karafyllis, Stefan Kaufmann, Gernot Böhme, Ingeborg Reichle, Kathryn M. Olesko, Peter Timmerman, Heather Fielding, Thomas Borgard, Melanie Grundmann, Andrea zur Nieden, Aristotle Tympas, Wolfgang Krohn, Katja Stoetzer, Dominique Gillebeert, Stefan Krebs, Cordula Dittmer, Christian Kehrt, Martina Heßler, Nik Brown, Christa Sommerer
Between Determination and Freedom: The Technological Transformation of Education and Learning No access Pages 213 - 224 Alexander Unger
(Self)Normalisation of Private Spaces - Biography, Space and Photographic Representation No access Pages 225 - 236 Katja Stoetzer
The Aestheticisation of Futurity. From Facts to Values - Authority to Authenticity No access Pages 237 - 252 Nik Brown
Technological Transformation of Society in Children''s Books No access Pages 253 - 266 Dominique Gillebeert
Aesthetics of Technology as Forms of Life No access Pages 267 - 278 Wolfgang Krohn
On the Symbolic Dimension of Infographics and its Impact on Normalization (With Examples Drawn from Demography) No access Pages 279 - 294 Jürgen Link
The Mental and Practical Impact of Pre-Bacteriological Quality Criteria for Water in the 1870s No access Pages 295 - 304 Marcus Stippak
War and the Beautiful: On the Aestheticising of the First World War in Film - Yesterday and Today No access Pages 305 - 316 Stefan Krebs
Soldiers on the Screen. Visual Orders and Modern Battlefields No access Pages 317 - 326 Stefan Kaufmann
Military Bodies, Weapon Use and Gender in the German Armed Forces No access Pages 327 - 336 Cordula Dittmer
"A Horribly Beautiful Picture". Aesthetic Dimensions of Aerial Warfare No access Pages 337 - 350 Christian Kehrt
Postmodern Aesthetics: Manipulating War Images No access Pages 351 - 362 Thomas Sieverts, Jürgen Link, Nicole C. Karafyllis, Stefan Kaufmann, Gernot Böhme, Ingeborg Reichle, Kathryn M. Olesko, Peter Timmerman, Heather Fielding, Thomas Borgard, Melanie Grundmann, Andrea zur Nieden, Aristotle Tympas, Wolfgang Krohn, Katja Stoetzer, Dominique Gillebeert, Stefan Krebs, Cordula Dittmer, Christian Kehrt, Martina Heßler, Nik Brown, Christa Sommerer
Authors No access Pages 363 - 365 Andreas Kaminski, Marcus Stippak, Alexander Unger, Marc Ziegler, Reinhard Heil
Backmatter No access Pages 366 - 367 Andreas Kaminski, Marcus Stippak, Alexander Unger, Marc Ziegler, Reinhard Heil