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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Heil, Reinhard[Herausgeber]
• Kaminski, Andreas[Herausgeber]
• Stippak, Marcus[Herausgeber]
• Unger, Alexander[Herausgeber]
• Ziegler, Marc[Herausgeber]

Titel

Tensions and Convergences : Technological and Aesthetic Transformations of Society

Ist Teil von

• Science Studies

Auflage

1st ed

Link zum Volltext

• UTB Scholars Vollzugriff 2024

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references.
• Frontmatter 1 Table of contents 5 Preface 9 Technical Gadgetry. Technological Development in the Aesthetic Economy 23 Aesthetic Precision 37 Architecture in the Mirror of Technology. The Rhetoric of Le Corbusier and the Futurist Movement 47 Readerless Media: Modernism, Information Theory, and the Commodity 59 Mass Aesthetics, Technicist Expansionism and the Ambivalence of Posthumanist Cultural Thought 69 Transhumanist Arts. Aesthetics of the Future? Parallels to 19th Century Dandyism 83 Art in the Age of Biotechnology 93 Cultural Aspects of Interface Design 105 Imaging Reality. On the Performativity of Imagination 117 Causality, Custom and the Marvellous. On Natural Science at the Beginning of Modern Times 129 Growth of Biofacts: The Real Thing or Metaphor? 141 The Brain as Icon - Reflections on the Representation of Brain Imaging on American Television, 1984-2002 153 "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 163 From the Historical Continuity of the Engineering Imaginary to an Anti- Essentialist Conception of the Mechanical-Electrical Relationship 173 Architectural Structuralism and a New Mode of Knowledge Production 185 Some Notes on Aesthetics in a 'Städtebau' on a Regional Scale 199 Between Determination and Freedom: The Technological Transformation of Education and Learning 213 (Self)Normalisation of Private Spaces - Biography, Space and Photographic Representation 225 The Aestheticisation of Futurity. From Facts to Values - Authority to Authenticity 237 Technological Transformation of Society in Children's Books 253 Aesthetics of Technology as Forms of Life 267 On the Symbolic Dimension of Infographics and its Impact on Normalization (With Examples Drawn from Demography) 279 The Mental and Practical Impact of Pre-Bacteriological Quality Criteria for Water in the 1870s 295 War and the Beautiful: On the Aestheticising of the First World War in Film - Yesterday and Today 305 Soldiers on the Screen. Visual Orders and Modern Battlefields 317 Military Bodies, Weapon Use and Gender in the German Armed Forces 327 "A Horribly Beautiful Picture". Aesthetic Dimensions of Aerial Warfare 337 Postmodern Aesthetics: Manipulating War Images 351 Authors 363 Backmatter 366
• This book presents results of an international conference which addressed the interaction of aesthetical and technological dimensions within the formation of contemporary society. The contributions discuss the production of time and space, self and nature, individual and society in the image of technology. They focus on the productive tensions and convergences between aesthetic and technological concepts when implemented in everyday life. The volume contains - among others - texts about technologies of visualisation, the aesthetics of warfare and the design of technological lifeworlds.
• Reinhard Heil, philosopher, is a researcher at the Institute of Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).
• Andreas Kaminski (M.A.) is a fellow of the postgraduate college »Technisierung und Gesellschaft«, Technische Universität Darmstadt.
• Marcus Stippak (M.A.) is a fellow of the postgraduate college »Technisierung und Gesellschaft«, Technische Universität Darmstadt.
• Alexander Unger (M.A.) is a fellow of the postgraduate college »Technisierung und Gesellschaft«, Technische Universität Darmstadt.
• Marc Ziegler (M.A.) is a fellow of the postgraduate college »Technisierung und Gesellschaft«, Technische Universität Darmstadt.
• English