From energy to information
Subtitle: representation in science and technology, art, and literature
By: edited by Bruce Clarke and Linda Dalrymple Henderson.
Contributors: Clarke, Bruce, 1950-; Henderson, Linda Dalrymple, 1948-
Series: Writing science
Publisher: Stanford University Press; Brand: Stanford University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 440
Subjects: Technology -- History.; Science -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-427) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: ILLUSTRATIONS; title: CONTRIBUTORS; title: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; title: Introduction; title: BRUCE CLARKE AND LINDA DALRYMPLE HENDERSON; title: From Thermodynamics to Virtuality; title: BRUCE CLARKE; title: Part One. The Cultures of Thermodynamics; title: Introduction; title: 1. Time Discovered and Time Gendered in Victorian Science and Culture; title: M. NORTON WISE; title: 2. Dark Star Crashes: Classical Thermodynamics and the Allegory of Cosmic Catastrophe; title: BRUCE CLARKE; title: 3. Energetic Abstraction: Ostwald, Bogdanov, and Russian Post-Revolutionary Art; title: CHARLOTTE DOUGLAS; title: Part Two. Ether and Electromagnetism: Capturing the Invisible; title: Introduction; title: 4. Lines of Force, Swirls of Ether; title: BRUCE J. HUNT; title: 5. The Real and the Ethereal: Modernist Energies in Eliot and Pound; title: IAN F. A. BELL; title: 6. Vibratory Modernism: Boccioni, Kupka, and the Ether of Space; title: LINDA DALRYMPLE HENDERSON; title: Part Three. Traces and Inscriptions: Diagramming Forces; title: Introduction; title: 7. Representation on the Line: Graphic Recording Instruments and Scientific Modernism; title: ROBERT M. BRAIN; title: 8. Concerning the Line: Music, Noise, and Phonography; title: DOUGLAS KAHN; title: 9. Bodies in Force Fields: Design Between the Wars; title: CHRISTOPH ASENDORF; title: Part Four. Representing Information; title: Introduction; title: 10. On the Imagination's Horizon Line: Uchronic Histories, Protocybernetic Contact, and Charles Babbage's Calculating Engines; title: DAVID TOMAS; title: 11. Escape and Constraint: Three Fictions Dream of Moving from Energy to Information; title: N. KATHERINE HAYLES; title: Part Five. Voxels and Sensels: Bodies in Virtual Space; title: Introduction; title: 13. Authorship and Surgery: The Shifting Ontology of the Virtual Surgeon; title: TIMOTHY LENOIR AND SHA XIN WEI; title: 14. Eversion: Brushing against Avatars, Aliens, and Angels; title: MARCOS NOVAK; title: Part Six. Representation from Pre- to Post-Modernity; title: Introduction; title: 5. Puppet and Test Pattern: Mechanicity and Materiality in Modern Pictorial Representation; title: RICHARD SHIFF; title: 16. Dinosaurs and Modernity; title: W. J. T. MITCHELL; title: NOTES; title: INDEX.