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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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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Milutis, Joe
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2006.
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Table des matières:
  • 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.