Architectures of time : toward a theory of the event in modernist culture / Sanford Kwinter.
Material type: TextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 2001Description: xii, 237 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0262112604
- 9780262112604
- 724.6
- NA682.M63 K89 2001
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 724.6 KWI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A286050B |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. The Complex and the Singular -- 2. Modernist Space and the Fragment -- 3. Physical Theory and Modernity: Einstein, Boccioni, Sant'Elia -- 4. Real Virtuality, or "the Kafkaesque" -- 5. Kafkan Immanence -- 6. Conclusion.
"In Architectures of Time, Sanford Kwinter offers a critical guide to the modern history of time and to the interplay between the physical sciences and the arts. Tracing the transformation of twentieth-century epistemology to the rise of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, Kwinter explains how the demise of the concept of absolute time, and of the classical notion of space as a fixed background against which things occur, led to field theory and a physics of the "event." He suggests that the closed, controlled, and mechanical world of physics gave way to the approximate, active, and qualitative world of biology as a model of both scientific and metaphysical explanation."--BOOK JACKET.
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