Essays on digital culture--what it is, its historical context, and its uses in the media, the film industry, and the sciences.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Lauren Rabinovitz is Professor of American Studies and Cinema at the University of Iowa. She is the author of For the Love of Pleasure: Women, Movies, and Culture in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago and Points of Resistance: Women, Power, and Politics in the New York Avant-Garde Cinema, 1943–1971 and coeditor of Television, History, and American Culture: Feminist Critical Essays, also published by Duke University Press. Abraham Geil is an instructor in media history at the New School University in New York City.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction / Lauren Rabinovitz and Abraham Geil 1 Part I. Intellectual Histories of the Information Age Imperial Attractions: Benjamin Franklin's New Experiments of 1751 / Laura Rigal 23 From Heat Engines to Digital Printouts: Machine Models of the Body from the Victorian Era to the Human Genome Project / David DePew 47 The Erasure and Construction of History for the Information Age: Positivism and Its Critics / Ronald E. Day 76 Part II. Visual Culture, Subjectivity, and the Education of the Senses More than the Movies: A History of Somatic Visual Culture through Hale's Tours, IMAX, and Motion Simulation Rides / Lauren Rabinovitz 99 Stereographs and the Construction of a Visual Culture in the United States / Judith Babbitts 126 The Convergence of the Pentagon and Hollywood: The Next Generation of Military Training Simulations / Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi 150 Part III. Materiality, Time, and the Reproduction of Sound and Motion Helmholtz, Edison, and Sound History / John Durham Peters 177 Media, Materiality, and the Measure of the Digital; or, The Case of Sheet Music and the Problem of Piano Rolls / Lisa Gitelman 199 Still/Moving: Digital Imaging and Medical Hermeneutics / Scott Curtis 218 Part IV. Digital Aesthetics, Social Texts, and Art Objects Bodies of Texts, Bodies of Subjects: Metaphoric Networks in New Media / N. Katherine Hayles 257 Electronic Literature: Discourses, Communities, Traditions / Thomas Swiss 283 Nostalgia for a Digital Object: Regrets on the Quickening of QuickTime / Vivian Sobchack 305 Selected Bibliography 331 Contributors 335 Index 339
Introduction / Lauren Rabinovitz and Abraham Geil 1 Part I. Intellectual Histories of the Information Age Imperial Attractions: Benjamin Franklin's New Experiments of 1751 / Laura Rigal 23 From Heat Engines to Digital Printouts: Machine Models of the Body from the Victorian Era to the Human Genome Project / David DePew 47 The Erasure and Construction of History for the Information Age: Positivism and Its Critics / Ronald E. Day 76 Part II. Visual Culture, Subjectivity, and the Education of the Senses More than the Movies: A History of Somatic Visual Culture through Hale's Tours, IMAX, and Motion Simulation Rides / Lauren Rabinovitz 99 Stereographs and the Construction of a Visual Culture in the United States / Judith Babbitts 126 The Convergence of the Pentagon and Hollywood: The Next Generation of Military Training Simulations / Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi 150 Part III. Materiality, Time, and the Reproduction of Sound and Motion Helmholtz, Edison, and Sound History / John Durham Peters 177 Media, Materiality, and the Measure of the Digital; or, The Case of Sheet Music and the Problem of Piano Rolls / Lisa Gitelman 199 Still/Moving: Digital Imaging and Medical Hermeneutics / Scott Curtis 218 Part IV. Digital Aesthetics, Social Texts, and Art Objects Bodies of Texts, Bodies of Subjects: Metaphoric Networks in New Media / N. Katherine Hayles 257 Electronic Literature: Discourses, Communities, Traditions / Thomas Swiss 283 Nostalgia for a Digital Object: Regrets on the Quickening of QuickTime / Vivian Sobchack 305 Selected Bibliography 331 Contributors 335 Index 339
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