From Energy to Information: Representation in Science and Technology, Art, and Literature
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2002. Softcover. Gray wraps with color illustration on front, white and yellow lettering, xviii, 440 pages, illustrated in bw. VG (light wear to block and wraps. Pages are clean and clear.). Item #179090
ISBN: 9780804742108
"This book offers an innovative examination of the interactions of science and technology, art, and literature in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Scholars in the history of art, literature, architecture, computer science, and media studies focus on five historical themes in the transition from energy to information: thermodynamics, electromagnetism, inscription, information theory, and virtuality. Different disciplines are grouped around specific moments in the history of science and technology in order to sample the modes of representation invented or adapted by each field in response to newly developed scientific concepts and models. By placing literary fictions and the plastic arts in relation to the transition from the era of energy to the information age, this collection of essays discovers unexpected resonances among concepts and materials not previously brought into juxtaposition. In particular, it demonstrates the crucial centrality of the theme of energy in modernist discourse. Overall, the volume develops the scientific and technological side of the shift from modernism to postmodernism in terms of the conceptual crossover from energy to information." - rear cover.
OCLC: 49821329
Price: $36.00