Main entry:

Williams, Rosalind H.

Title & Author:

Notes on the underground : an essay on technology, society, and the imagination / Rosalind Williams.

Edition:

New ed.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2008.

Description:

xi, 283 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-255) and index.
1. Underworld as a Vision of the Technological Future -- 2. Excavations I: Digging Down to the Truth -- 3. Excavations II: Creating the Substructure of Modern Life -- 4. Underground Aesthetics: From Sublimity to Fantasy -- 5. Degeneration and Defiance in Subterranean Society -- 6. Journeys into the Social Underworld -- 7. Underground and the Quest for Security.
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Summary:

"In Notes on the Underground, Rosalind Williams takes us inside a critical historical moment, giving equal coverage to actual and imaginary undergrounds. She looks at the real-life invasions of the underground that occurred as modern urban infrastructures of sewers and subways were laid, and at the simultaneous archaeological excavations that were unearthing both human history and the planet's deep past. She also examines the subterranean stories of Verne, Wells, Forster, Hugo, Bulwer-Lytton, and other writers who proposed alternative visions of the coming technological civilization." "Williams argues that these imagined and real underground environments provide models of human life in a world dominated by human presence and offer a prophetic look at today's technology-dominated society."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9780262731904 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0262731908 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Underground areas.
Underground utility lines.
Zones souterraines.
Réseaux souterrains.
underground environments.
Technischer Fortschritt
Unterirdisches Bauwerk
Imagination
Unterwelt
Technology Social aspects

Holdings:

Location: Library main 256715
Call No.: BIB 187131
Status: Available