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Engineers of Happy Land : Technology and Nationalism in a Colony /
Based on close reading of historical documents--poetry as much as statistics--and focused on the conceptualization of technology, this book is an unconventional evocation of late colonial Netherlands East Indies (today Indonesia). In considering technology and the ways that people use and think abou...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2002]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g 1. |t Language as Asphalt -- |t Bare Feet -- |t Hard and Clean Roads -- |t Struggle for the Roads -- |t Language-game -- |t Bahasa Indonesia, "Indonesian Language" -- |g 2. |t Towers -- |t Homes on Wheels and Floating Homes -- |t Cities -- |t Camps -- |t Towers -- |g 3. |t From Darkness to Light -- |t City of Light -- |t Dactyloscopy -- |t Floodlight -- |t Sublime -- |t Mirror -- |g 4. |t Indonesian Dandy -- |t Dolls -- |t Modern Times -- |t Nationalism and the Birth of the Dandy -- |t Death of the Dandy -- |t Parade -- |g 5. |t Let Us Become Radio Mechanics -- |t Metaphor -- |t Thing -- |t Voice -- |t Closed Circuits -- |t Mechanics. |t Epilogue: Only the Deaf Can Hear Well -- |t Sjahrir Recalled -- |t Memories of Holland -- |t Time in Three Dimensions -- |t Bacteria -- |t Splendid Radio -- |t Mouth of Karundeng -- |t Sportsmen-Dandies-Jokers-Engineers -- |t Ear Culture -- |t Happy End. |
| 520 | |a Based on close reading of historical documents--poetry as much as statistics--and focused on the conceptualization of technology, this book is an unconventional evocation of late colonial Netherlands East Indies (today Indonesia). In considering technology and the ways that people use and think about things, Rudolf Mrázek invents an original way to talk about freedom, colonialism, nationalism, literature, revolution, and human nature. The central chapters comprise vignettes and take up, in turn, transportation (from shoes to road-building to motorcycle clubs), architecture (from prison construction to home air-conditioning), optical technologies (from photography to fingerprinting), clothing and fashion, and the introduction of radio and radio stations. The text clusters around a group of fascinating recurring characters representing colonialism, nationalism, and the awkward, inevitable presence of the European cultural, intellectual, and political avant-garde: Tillema, the pharmacist-author of Kromoblanda; the explorer/engineer IJzerman; the "Javanese princess" Kartina; the Indonesia nationalist journalist Mas Marco; the Dutch novelist Couperus; the Indonesian novelist Pramoedya Ananta Toer; and Dutch left-wing liberal Wim Wertheim and his wife. In colonial Indies, as elsewhere, people employed what Proust called "remembering" and what Heidegger called "thinging" to sense and make sense of the world. In using this observation to approach Indonesian society, Mrázek captures that society off balance, allowing us to see it in unfamiliar positions. The result is a singular work with surprises for readers throughout the social sciences, not least those interested in Southeast Asia or colonialism more broadly. | ||
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