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Energy to Information by Clarke & Henderson… (1)
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From Energy to Information: Representation in Science and Technology, Art, and Literature Edited by Bruce Clarke and Linda Dalrymple Henderson Stanford University Press, © 2002 ISBN 0-8047-4210-3, www.sup.org From Energy to Information: Representation in Science and Technology, Art, and Literature offers an innovative examination of the interactions of science and technology, art, and literature in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Scholars in the history of science, art, literature, architecture, computer science, and media studies focus on five historical themes in the transition from energy to information: thermodynamics, electromagnetism, inscription, information theory, and virtuality. Different disciplines are grouped around specific moments in the history of science and technology in order to sample the modes of representation invented or adapted by each field in response to newly developed scientific concepts and models. By placing literary fictions and the plastic arts in relation to the transition from the era of energy to the information age, this collection of essays discovers unexpected resonances among materials not previously brought into juxtaposition. In particular, it demonstrates the crucial centrality of the theme of energy in modernist discourse. Overall, this volume develops the scientific and technological side of the historical and cultural shift from modernism to postmodernism in terms of the conceptual crossover from energy to information. Table of Contents Introduction Bruce Clarke and Linda Dalrymple Henderson From Thermodynamics to Virtuality Bruce Clarke Part 1: The Cultures of Thermodynamics Introduction 1. Time Discovered and Time Gendered in Victorian Science and Culture Norton Wise 2. Dark Star Crashes: Classical Thermodynamics and the Allegory of Cosmic Catastrophe Bruce Clarke 3. Energetic Abstraction: Ostwald, Bogdanov, and Russian Post-Revolutionary Art Charlotte Douglas Part 2: Ether and Electromagnetism: Capturing the Invisible Introduction 4. Lines of Force, Swirls of Ether Bruce J. Hunt 5. The Real and the Ethereal: Modernist Energies in Eliot and Pound Ian F. A. Bell 6. Vibratory Modernism: Boccioni, Kupka,Boccioni, Kupka, and the Ether of Space Linda Dalrymple Henderson Part 3: Traces and Inscriptions: Diagramming Forces Introduction 7. Representation on the Line: Graphic Recording Instruments and Scientific Modernism Robert Brain 8. Concerning the Line: Music, Noise, and Phonography Douglas Kahn 9. Bodies in Force Fields: Design Between the Wars Christoph Asendorf Part 4: Representing Information Introduction 10. On the Imagination's Horizon Line: Uchronic Histories, Protocybernetic Contact, and Babbage's Calculating Engines David Tomas 11. Escape and Constraint: Three Fictions Dream of Moving from Energy to Information N. Katherine Hayles 12. Cybernetics and Art: Cultural Convergence in the 1960s Edward Shanken Part 5: Voxels and Sensels: Bodies in Virtual Space Introduction 13. Authorship and Surgery: The Shifting Ontology of the Virtual Surgeon Timothy Lenoir and Sha Xin Wei 14. Eversion: Brushing against Avatars, Aliens, and Angels Marcos Novak Part 6: Representation from Pre- to Post-Modernity Introduction 15. Puppet and Test Pattern: Mechanicity and Materiality in Modern Pictorial Representation Richard Shiff 16. Dinosaurs and Modernity W. J. T. Mitchell |
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