Beyond the image machine : a history of visual technologies / David Tomas.
Material type: TextSeries: Technologies : studies in culture and theoryPublisher: New York, N.Y. : Continuum, 2004Description: 231 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0826462723
- 9780826462725
- 0826462731
- 9780826462732
- 006.7 22
- QA76.575 T56 2004
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 006.7 TOM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A293895B |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ch. 1. Pictures of the new and materialization of vision from the age of discover to the era of posthuman -- Ch. 2. The materialization of sentience : the dynamo and the virgin -- Ch. 3. The incubator : Niepce's heliographic imprint of 1826 -- Ch. 4. Reimaging the computer's origins : mechanical drawing and Charles Babbage's calculating engines -- Ch. 5. Alternate models of the virtual : optical thresholds in camera lucidas and head-mounted displays -- Ch. 6. Beyond the cyborg : Antonio Panizzi's 1852 diagram of a circular reading room at the British Museum -- Ch. 7. Unorthodox time machines : images and instruments across space, time and history.
Machine converted from AACR2 source record.
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