Architectures of time : toward a theory of the event in modernist culture / Sanford Kwinter.

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Kwinter, Sanford.

Title & Author:

Architectures of time : toward a theory of the event in modernist culture / Sanford Kwinter.

Publication:

Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 2001.

Description:

x, 237 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. The Complex and the Singular -- 2. Modernist Space and the Fragment -- 3. Physical Theory and Modernity: Einstein, Boccioni, Sant'Elia -- 4. Real Virtuality, or "the Kafkaesque" -- 5. Kafkan Immanence -- 6. Conclusion.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"In Architectures of Time, Sanford Kwinter offers a critical guide to the modern history of time and to the interplay between the physical sciences and the arts. Tracing the transformation of twentieth-century epistemology to the rise of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, Kwinter explains how the demise of the concept of absolute time, and of the classical notion of space as a fixed background against which things occur, led to field theory and a physics of the "event." He suggests that the closed, controlled, and mechanical world of physics gave way to the approximate, active, and qualitative world of biology as a model of both scientific and metaphysical explanation."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0262112604 (alk. paper)
9780262112604 (alk. paper)
0262611813
9780262611817

Subject:

Sant'Elia, Antonio, 1888-1916
Modern movement (Architecture)
Mouvement moderne (Architecture)
Architekturtheorie
Architectuurtheorieën.
Bouwkunst.
Cultuurfilosofie.
ARQUITETURA MODERNA.
Time
Space and time
Events (Philosophy)
Art and science
Architecture and science.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 217449
Call No.: NA2543.S35 K8 2001
Status: Available

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