Title: American technological sublime
First published: 1994
Description: American Technological Sublime is a study of the politics of perception in industrial society. Arranged chronologically, it suggests that the sublime itself has a history - that sublime experiences are emotional configurations that emerge from new social and technological conditions, and that each new configuration to some extent undermines and displaces the older versions.

After giving a short history of the sublime as an aesthetic category, Nye describes the reemergence and democratization of the concept in the early nineteenth century as an expression of the American sense of specialness.
Subjects: History, Social aspects, Social aspects of Technology, Sublime, The, Technology, The Sublime, Technology, history, united states, Technology, social aspects
Places: United States
Time periods: 19th century, 20th century
LC classification: T14.5 .N93 1994