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Transports of Delight
- How Technology Materializes Human Imagination
Engelsk
Bogcover for Transports of Delight af Peter Hancock, 9783319552477
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
235
ISBN-13:
9783319552477
Indbinding:
Hardback
ISBN-10:
3319552473
Udg. Dato:
22 maj 2017
Størrelse i cm:
16,3 x 24,5 x 2,2
Oplagsdato:
22 maj 2017
Forfatter(e):

Transports of Delight

- How Technology Materializes Human Imagination
Engelsk
Hardback 2017
Format:

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This inspiring book shows how the spiritual side of life, with its thoughts, feelings, and aspirations, is intimately bound up with our material technologies. From the wonder of Gothic Cathedrals, to the quiet majesty of lighter than air flight, to the ultimate in luxury of the north Atlantic steamers, Peter Hancock explores how these sequential heights of technology have enabled our dreams of being transported to new and uncharted realms to become reality. Sometimes literally, sometimes figuratively, technology has always been there to make material the visions of our imagination. This book shows how this has essentially been true for all technologies from Stonehenge to space station.
But technology is far from perfect. Indeed, the author argues here that some of the most public and tragic of its failures still remain instructive, emblematic, and even inspiring. He reports on examples such as a Cathedral of the Earth (Beauvais), a Cathedral of the Seas (Titanic), and aCathedral of the Air (Hindenburg) and tells their stories from the viewpoint of material transcendence. By interweaving their stories he reveals how technologies can succeed in elevating human beings and, in taking them to whole new realms of being, he explores and explains why these experiences are ‘Transports of Delight.’
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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
235
ISBN-13:
9783319552477
Indbinding:
Hardback
ISBN-10:
3319552473
Udg. Dato:
22 maj 2017
Størrelse i cm:
16,3 x 24,5 x 2,2
Oplagsdato:
22 maj 2017
Forfatter(e):
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