1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910460089203321

Autore

Carpo Mario

Titolo

The alphabet and the algorithm [[electronic resource] /] / Mario Carpo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, 2011

ISBN

0-262-29458-3

1-283-02017-3

9786613020178

0-262-29592-X

Descrizione fisica

xi, 169 p

Collana

Writing architecture

Disciplina

720.1

Soggetti

Architectural design

Architectural design - Technological innovations

Repetition (Aesthetics)

Design and technology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Variable, identical, differential. Architecture and the identical copy : timelines -- Allography and notations -- Authorship -- The early modern pursuit of identical reproduction -- Geometry, algorism, and the notational bottleneck -- The fall of the identicals -- The reversal of the Albertian paradigm -- The rise. Alberti and identical copies -- Going digital -- Windows -- ID pictures and the power of facsimiles -- Alberti's imitation game and its technological failure -- The invention of the Albertian paradigm -- The fall. Form -- Standard -- Agency -- Epilogue. Split agency.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910454484303321

Autore

Todorova Marii͡a Nikolaeva

Titolo

Imagining the Balkans [[electronic resource] /] / Maria Todorova

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009

ISBN

1-282-05401-5

9786612054013

0-19-972838-0

Edizione

[Updated ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Disciplina

949.61015

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Balkan Peninsula History

Balkan Peninsula Historiography

Balkan Peninsula History 19th century

Balkan Peninsula History 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previous ed.: 1997.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-266) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction: Balkanism and Orientalism: Are They Different Categories?; 1. The Balkans: Nomen; 2. "Balkans" as Self-designation; 3. The Discovery of the Balkans; 4. Patterns of Perception until 1900; 5. From Discovery to Invention, from Invention to Classification; 6. Between Classification and Politics: The Balkans and the Myth of Central Europe; 7. The Balkans: Realia-Qu'est-ce qu'il y a de hors-texte?; Conclusion; Afterword to the Updated Edition; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Imagining the Balkans examines how an innocent geographic appellation was transformed into a powerful and widespread pejorative designation. In a new afterword, Maria Todorova discusses the reaction to her dubbing of the term Balkanism and recent events in the Balkans.