Tensions and Convergences: Technological and Aesthetic Transformations of Society

Published by transcript Verlag 2007

Tensions and Convergences

Technological and Aesthetic Transformations of Society

Edited by: Reinhard Heil , Andreas Kaminski , Marcus Stippak , Alexander Unger and Marc Ziegler

In the series Science Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839405185

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Preface Reinhard Heil, Andreas Kaminski, Marcus Stippak, Alexander Unger and Marc Ziegler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Modern Alliances Between Aesthetics and Technology
Technical Gadgetry. Technological Development in the Aesthetic Economy Gernot Böhme Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Aesthetic Precision Kathryn M. Olesko Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
Architecture in the Mirror of Technology. The Rhetoric of Le Corbusier and the Futurist Movement Peter Timmerman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
Readerless Media: Modernism, Information Theory, and the Commodity Heather Fielding Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
Mass Aesthetics, Technicist Expansionism and the Ambivalence of Posthumanist Cultural Thought Thomas Borgard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
Aesthetics of Technoscience
Transhumanist Arts. Aesthetics of the Future? Parallels to 19^th Century Dandyism Melanie Grundmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
Art in the Age of Biotechnology Ingeborg Reichle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
Cultural Aspects of Interface Design Laurent Mignonneau and Christa Sommerer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
Imaging Reality. On the Performativity of Imagination Marc Ziegler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
Working on Visibility
Causality, Custom and the Marvellous. On Natural Science at the Beginning of Modern Times Andreas Kaminski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
Growth of Biofacts: The Real Thing or Metaphor? Nicole C. Karafyllis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
The Brain as Icon – Reflections on the Representation of Brain Imaging on American Television, 1984-2002 Claudia Wassmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	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 Andrea Zur Nieden Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
From the Historical Continuity of the Engineering Imaginary to an Anti- Essentialist Conception of the Mechanical-Electrical Relationship Aristotle Tympas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
Technological Transformation of Space and Social Life
Architectural Structuralism and a New Mode of Knowledge Production Martina Hessler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
Some Notes on Aesthetics in a ‘Städtebau’ on a Regional Scale Thomas Sieverts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Between Determination and Freedom: The Technological Transformation of Education and Learning Alexander Unger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
(Self)Normalisation of Private Spaces – Biography, Space and Photographic Representation Katja Stoetzer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
Cultural Assessment and Appropriation of Technology
The Aestheticisation of Futurity. From Facts to Values – Authority to Authenticity Nik Brown Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
Technological Transformation of Society in Children’s Books Dominique Gillebeert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
Aesthetics of Technology as Forms of Life Wolfgang Krohn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
On the Symbolic Dimension of Infographics and its Impact on Normalization (With Examples Drawn from Demography) Jürgen Link Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
The Mental and Practical Impact of Pre-Bacteriological Quality Criteria for Water in the 1870s Marcus Stippak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295
The Aesthetic Dimension of Warfare
War and the Beautiful: On the Aestheticising of the First World War in Film – Yesterday and Today Silke Fengler and Stefan Krebs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
Soldiers on the Screen. Visual Orders and Modern Battlefields Stefan Kaufmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	317
Military Bodies, Weapon Use and Gender in the German Armed Forces Cordula Dittmer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	327
“A Horribly Beautiful Picture”. Aesthetic Dimensions of Aerial Warfare Christian Kehrt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	337
Postmodern Aesthetics: Manipulating War Images Raphael Sassower Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	351
Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	363
Backmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	366

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Edition: 1. Aufl.
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 366
Keywords: Aesthetics; Visualization; Society; Image; Sociology of Technology; Sociology of Culture; Philosophy of Technology; Sociology

eBook

Published: July 27, 2015
ISBN: 9783839405185