Tensions and Convergences: Technological and Aesthetic Transformations of Society

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

doi:10.14361/9783839405185

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Edition: 1/2015
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

Frontmatter Full access Pages 1 - 4
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Table of contents Full access Pages 5 - 8
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Preface No access Pages 9 - 22
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Technical Gadgetry. Technological Development in the Aesthetic Economy No access Pages 23 - 36
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Aesthetic Precision No access Pages 37 - 46
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Architecture in the Mirror of Technology. The Rhetoric of Le Corbusier and the Futurist Movement No access Pages 47 - 58
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Readerless Media: Modernism, Information Theory, and the Commodity No access Pages 59 - 68
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Mass Aesthetics, Technicist Expansionism and the Ambivalence of Posthumanist Cultural Thought No access Pages 69 - 82
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Transhumanist Arts. Aesthetics of the Future? Parallels to 19<sup>th</sup> Century Dandyism No access Pages 83 - 92
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Art in the Age of Biotechnology No access Pages 93 - 104
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Cultural Aspects of Interface Design No access Pages 105 - 116
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Imaging Reality. On the Performativity of Imagination No access Pages 117 - 128
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Causality, Custom and the Marvellous. On Natural Science at the Beginning of Modern Times No access Pages 129 - 140
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Growth of Biofacts: The Real Thing or Metaphor? No access Pages 141 - 152
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The Brain as Icon - Reflections on the Representation of Brain Imaging on American Television, 1984-2002 No access Pages 153 - 162
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"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
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From the Historical Continuity of the Engineering Imaginary to an Anti- Essentialist Conception of the Mechanical-Electrical Relationship No access Pages 173 - 184
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Architectural Structuralism and a New Mode of Knowledge Production No access Pages 185 - 198
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Some Notes on Aesthetics in a ''Städtebau'' on a Regional Scale No access Pages 199 - 212
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Between Determination and Freedom: The Technological Transformation of Education and Learning No access Pages 213 - 224
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(Self)Normalisation of Private Spaces - Biography, Space and Photographic Representation No access Pages 225 - 236
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The Aestheticisation of Futurity. From Facts to Values - Authority to Authenticity No access Pages 237 - 252
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Technological Transformation of Society in Children''s Books No access Pages 253 - 266
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Aesthetics of Technology as Forms of Life No access Pages 267 - 278
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On the Symbolic Dimension of Infographics and its Impact on Normalization (With Examples Drawn from Demography) No access Pages 279 - 294
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The Mental and Practical Impact of Pre-Bacteriological Quality Criteria for Water in the 1870s No access Pages 295 - 304
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War and the Beautiful: On the Aestheticising of the First World War in Film - Yesterday and Today No access Pages 305 - 316
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Soldiers on the Screen. Visual Orders and Modern Battlefields No access Pages 317 - 326
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Military Bodies, Weapon Use and Gender in the German Armed Forces No access Pages 327 - 336
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"A Horribly Beautiful Picture". Aesthetic Dimensions of Aerial Warfare No access Pages 337 - 350
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Postmodern Aesthetics: Manipulating War Images No access Pages 351 - 362
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Backmatter No access Pages 366 - 367
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