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Beyond the image machine : a history of visual technologies / David Tomas.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Technologies : studies in culture and theoryPublisher: New York, N.Y. : Continuum, 2004Description: 231 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0826462723
  • 9780826462725
  • 0826462731
  • 9780826462732
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 006.7 22
LOC classification:
  • QA76.575 T56 2004
Contents:
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.
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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.

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