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Television before TV

Weber, Anne-Katrin
Television before TV
Television before TV rethinks the history of interwar television by exploring the medium‿s numerous demonstrations organized at national fairs and international exhibitions in the late 1920s and 1930s. Building upon extensive archival research in Britain, Germany, and the United States, Anne-Katrin Weber analyses the sites where the new medium met its first audiences. She argues that public displays offered spaces where television's symbolic, ...

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Global Modernity from Coloniality to Pandemic

Global Modernity from Coloniality to Pandemic
Global Modernity from Coloniality to Pandemic explores issues related to the global crises of our time: reason, science, and the environment by revisiting the notions of modernity, modernism, and modernization, which can no longer be considered purely Western or strictly secular. The book poses questions about viewing modernity today from the vantage point of traditionally disparate disciplines - engaging scholars from sociology to science, ph...

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Knowledge and Culture in the Early Dutch Republic

Clement, Albert / Dixhoorn, Arjan van / Berkel, Klaas van
Knowledge and Culture in the Early Dutch Republic
The Dutch Republic around 1600 was a laboratory of the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century. Here conditions were favourable for the development of new ways of knowing nature and the natural philosopher Isaac Beeckman, who was born in Middelburg in 1588, was a seminal figure in this context. He laid the groundwork for the strictly mechanical philosophy that is at the heart of the new science. Descartes and others could build on wha...

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Archive, Photography and the Language of Administration

Birkin, Jane
Archive, Photography and the Language of Administration
This alternative study of archive and photography brings many types of image assemblages into view, always in relation to the regulated systems operating within the institutional milieu. The archive catalogue is presented as a critical tool for mapping image time, and the language of image description is seen as having a life, a worth and an aesthetic value of its own. Functioning at the intersection of text and image, the book combines media ...

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