Isbn: 9783865600509 - variantology 2. on deep time: relations of arts, sciences and technologies (kunstwissenschaftliche bibliothek, band 35) (2 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very good in wraps. 16 x 24cm 456pp very good paperback. A study of variantology an interdisciplinary research approach created by media theorist Siegfried Zielinski. It explores the "deep time" relations between arts, sciences, and technologies by focusing on forgotten, minor, or alternative paths rather than linear technological progress. It values deviation and variety over standardization. Text accompanied by black and white reproductions here and there. …

Softcover. Zustand: Gut bis sehr gut. 1. Auflage. B : 6.25 x 9.25 in., 350 pages. - What does a thirteenth-century Majorcan missionary have to do with logical machines? Were the astrolabes of the late Middle Ages really only used to calculate the orbits of stars and planets, or were they philosophical instruments? Was the first avant garde in Russia more interested in Jesuit affect theory or H.G. Wells's time machine? Where do radar angels live? These excursions into the relationships between the arts, the sciences and technology lead neither to a revised history of art nor to a revised history of the media; they question our understanding of what we have defined as art and what we have seen as the media.…