An edition of From energy to information
(2002)
From energy to information
representation in science and technology, art, and literature
by Clarke, Bruce and Linda Dalrymple Henderson
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From energy to information: representation in science and technology, art, and literature
2002, Stanford University Press, Brand: Stanford University Press
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From Energy to Information: Representation in Science and Technology, Art, and Literature (Writing Science)
August 21, 2002, Stanford University Press
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From Energy to Information: Representation in Science and Technology, Art, and Literature (Writing Science)
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Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: ILLUSTRATIONS
CONTRIBUTORS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Introduction
BRUCE CLARKE AND LINDA DALRYMPLE HENDERSON
From Thermodynamics to Virtuality
BRUCE CLARKE
Part One. The Cultures of Thermodynamics
Introduction
1. Time Discovered and Time Gendered in Victorian Science and Culture
M. 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 Two. 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, and the Ether of Space
LINDA DALRYMPLE HENDERSON
Part Three. Traces and Inscriptions: Diagramming Forces
Introduction
7. Representation on the Line: Graphic Recording Instruments and Scientific Modernism
ROBERT M. BRAIN
8. Concerning the Line: Music, Noise, and Phonography
DOUGLAS KAHN
9. Bodies in Force Fields: Design Between the Wars
CHRISTOPH ASENDORF
Part Four. Representing Information
Introduction
10. On the Imagination's Horizon Line: Uchronic Histories, Protocybernetic Contact, and Charles Babbage's Calculating Engines
DAVID TOMAS
11. Escape and Constraint: Three Fictions Dream of Moving from Energy to Information
N. KATHERINE HAYLES
Part Five. 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 Six. Representation from Pre- to Post-Modernity
Introduction
5. Puppet and Test Pattern: Mechanicity and Materiality in Modern Pictorial Representation
RICHARD SHIFF
16. Dinosaurs and Modernity
W. J. T. MITCHELL
NOTES
INDEX.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-427) and index.
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