Architectures of time : toward a theory of the event in modernist culture / Sanford Kwinter.

By:

Kwinter, Sanford [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 2001Description: xii, 237 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0262112604
9780262112604

Subject(s):

Modern movement (Architecture)

DDC classification:

724.6

LOC classification:

NA682.M63 K89 2001

Contents:

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.

Review: "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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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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