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| Illustrations | ||
| Contributors | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| From Thermodynamics to Virtuality | 17 | |
| Pt. 1 | The Culture of Thermodynamics | |
| 1 | Time Discovered and Time Gendered in Victorian Science and Culture | 39 |
| 2 | Dark Star Crashes: Classical Thermodynamics and the Allegory of Cosmic Catastrophe | 59 |
| 3 | Energetic Abstraction: Ostwald, Bogdanov, and Russian Post-Revolutionary Art | 76 |
| Pt. 2 | Ether and Electromagnetism: Capturing the Invisible | |
| 4 | Lines of Force, Swirls of Ether | 99 |
| 5 | The Real and the Ethereal: Modernist Energies in Eliot and Pound | 114 |
| 6 | Vibratory Modernism: Boccioni, Kupka, and the Ether of Space | 126 |
| Pt. 3 | Traces and Inscriptions: Diagramming Forces | |
| 7 | Representation on the Line: Graphic Recording Instruments and Scientific Modernism | 155 |
| 8 | Concerning the Line: Music, Noise, and Phonography | 178 |
| 9 | Bodies in Force Fields: Design Between the Wars | 195 |
| Pt. 4 | Representing Information | |
| 10 | On the Imagination's Horizon Line: Uchronic Histories, Protocybernetic Contact, and Charles Babbage's Calculating Engines | 217 |
| 11 | Escape and Constraint: Three Fictions Dream of Moving from Energy to Information | 235 |
| 12 | Cybernetics and Art: Cultural Convergence in the 1960s | 255 |
| Pt. 5 | Voxels and Sensels: Bodies in Virtual Space | |
| 13 | Authorship and Surgery: The Shifting Ontology of the Virtual Surgeon | 283 |
| 14 | Eversion: Brushing against Avatars, Aliens, and Angels | 309 |
| Pt. 6 | Representation from Pre- to Post-Modernity | |
| 15 | Puppet and Test Pattern: Mechanicity and Materiality in Modern Pictorial Representation | 327 |
| 16 | Dinosaurs and Modernity | 351 |
| Notes | 365 | |
| Index | 429 |
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Aaron Sauers
reviewed From Energy to Information: Representation in Science and Technology, Art, and Literature on August 18, 2007
From Energy to Information: Representation in Science and Technology, Art, and Literature
I'm currently reading this for a college class. I really didn't think this topic has any relevance at all anymore, but I was wrong. I'm surprised by how closely it parallels technology today.
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