Beck / Bishop Technocrats of the Imagination

Art, Technology, and the Military-Industrial Avant-Garde
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4780-0732-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten

Reihe: A Cultural Politics Book

John Beck and Ryan Bishop explore the 1960s interdisciplinary art and technology collaborations between American avant-garde artists and the military-industrial complex that took place in universities, private labs, and museums.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Beck, John

Bishop, Ryan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Geschichte der Kunstwissenschaft und Kunstkritik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
1. Science, Art, Democracy 17
2. A Laboratory of Form and Movement: Institutionalizing Emancipatory Technicity at MIT 46
3. The Hands-On Process: Engineering Collaboration at E.A.T. 77
4. Feedback: Expertise, LACMA, and the Think Tank 107
5. How to Make the World Work 133
6. Heritage of Our Times 164
Notes 193
References 201
Index 221

Über Autor(innen)

John Beck is Professor of Modern Literature at the University of Westminster and author of Dirty Wars: Landscape, Power, and Waste in Western American Literature.

Ryan Bishop is Professor of Global Arts and Politics at the University of Southampton and author of Comedy and Cultural Critique in American Film.