Beyond the image machine : a history of visual technologies /
Tomas, David,
Beyond the image machine : a history of visual technologies / David Tomas. - 231 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Technologies : studies in culture and theory. . - Technologies : studies in culture and theory. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Pictures of the new and materialization of vision from the age of discover to the era of posthuman -- The materialization of sentience : the dynamo and the virgin -- The incubator : Niepce's heliographic imprint of 1826 -- Reimaging the computer's origins : mechanical drawing and Charles Babbage's calculating engines -- Alternate models of the virtual : optical thresholds in camera lucidas and head-mounted displays -- Beyond the cyborg : Antonio Panizzi's 1852 diagram of a circular reading room at the British Museum -- Unorthodox time machines : images and instruments across space, time and history. Ch. 1. Ch. 2. Ch. 3. Ch. 4. Ch. 5. Ch. 6. Ch. 7.
0826462723 9780826462725 0826462731 9780826462732
2004043824
Multimedia systems--History
QA76.575 T56 2004
006.7
Beyond the image machine : a history of visual technologies / David Tomas. - 231 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Technologies : studies in culture and theory. . - Technologies : studies in culture and theory. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Pictures of the new and materialization of vision from the age of discover to the era of posthuman -- The materialization of sentience : the dynamo and the virgin -- The incubator : Niepce's heliographic imprint of 1826 -- Reimaging the computer's origins : mechanical drawing and Charles Babbage's calculating engines -- Alternate models of the virtual : optical thresholds in camera lucidas and head-mounted displays -- Beyond the cyborg : Antonio Panizzi's 1852 diagram of a circular reading room at the British Museum -- Unorthodox time machines : images and instruments across space, time and history. Ch. 1. Ch. 2. Ch. 3. Ch. 4. Ch. 5. Ch. 6. Ch. 7.
0826462723 9780826462725 0826462731 9780826462732
2004043824
Multimedia systems--History
QA76.575 T56 2004
006.7