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Ether : The Nothing That Connects Everything /

In Ether, the histories of the unseen merge with discussions of the technology of electromagnetism. Navigating more than three hundred years of the ether's cultural and artistic history, Joe Milutis reveals its continuous reinvention and tangible impact without ever losing sight of its ephemera...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Milutis, Joe
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2006.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: superflux of sky
  • Part I. Radiance and intellect. Paradigm lost: ether and the metaphysics of pop science
  • Holy science, film, and the end of ether
  • Part II. The lovely intangibles. Radio, ether, and the avant-garde
  • Ether underground: the postwar representation of outer space
  • Conclusion: visualizing networks, selling transcendence.