The Technical Imagination : Argentine Culture's Modern Dreams /

In what Beatriz Sarlo calls six "episodes," ranging from the proto-science fiction of Horacio Quiroga and the apocalyptic urban surrealism of Roberto Arlt through the development of mass media, tales of inventors and inventions, and an entertaining tour of "weird science" and med...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Sarlo, Beatriz (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]
Temas:
History > Intellectual and Cultural.
History > Latin American.
History > Science, Technology, and Medicine.
HISTORY / Latin America / South America.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Translator's Note
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Letters
  • 1. Horacio Quiroga and Technoscientific Theory
  • 2. Arlt:Technology in the City
  • 3. Popular Science and the Popularizing Press
  • Part II: Histories
  • 4. Inventors: Technology and Mythmaking
  • 5. Radio, Cinema, and Television: Long-Distance Communication
  • 6. Doctors, Clairvoyants, and Quacks
  • Notes

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