Coding and Representation from the Nineteenth Century to the Present (eBook, ePUB)

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Redaktion: Chapman, Anne; Hume, Natalie

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This collection explores trends and cultures relating to electrical telegraphy and recent digital communications, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. It interrogates the ways in which society, politics, literature and art are imbricated with changing communications technologies, and what this might mean for human connection.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000383652
• Artikelnr.: 61311785

Autorenporträt

Anne Chapman researches the interplay of cultural and social forms in the nineteenth and early twentieth century with interests in periodical culture, short fiction and the confluence of the visual and the verbal. She teaches at Glasgow Caledonian University London. Natalie Hume is an independent art historian whose research interests include medium, material culture and the politics of visual representation. Her PhD, awarded by the Courtauld Institute of Art, investigated nineteenth-century transatlantic relations through the lens of commercial art.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1
ANNE CHAPMAN AND NATALIE HUME
1 To Be Connected: Perspectives on Autonomy and Risk from the Electric Age
7
MANU LUKSCH AND MUKUL PATEL
2 Cyborg Imperium, c. 1900 48
DUNCAN BELL
3 Universal Visual Languages in the Age of Telegraphy 71
GRACE BROCKINGTON
4 Plotting Passengers at a Metropolitan Station: Paddington in the
Mid-Nineteenth Century 96
NICOLA K IRKBY
5 'Some Sentient Creature'. The Cable Body and the Body of Labour: Robert
Dudley, William Howard Russell and the 1865 Voyage of the Great Eastern
114
KATE FLINT
6 Signal Markings in Victorian Miscellanies: Noise and Signal from the
Idyll to Aestheticism 137
CAROLINE ARSCOTT AND CLARE PETTITT
7 'Recoding the Sea': Uneven and Combined Capitalism in the Work of Allan
Sekula (Telegraph Version) 161
GAIL DAY AND STEVE EDWARDS
8 random international 189
INTERVIEW BY ANNE CHAPMAN AND NATALIE HUME