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Record Nr.

UNINA9910878800003321

Autore

Cubitt Sean

Titolo

Truth : Aesthetic Politics

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Goldsmiths, University London, , 2023

©2023

ISBN

1-913380-63-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (338 pages)

Disciplina

177.3

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Dedication -- Preamble -- 1 Realism -- 1.1 Cosmic Zoom -- From Hardy to Spielberg -- The Powers of Ten -- NGC 4889 -- El Presente no Existe -- Software Zooms and Zoom Software -- Microscopy at the Movies -- 1.2 Blackfriars Bridge, 1896 -- Ancestors -- Hierarchies -- Victorian Anthropocene -- Ontology and Oblivion -- 1.3 The Remaining Tasks of Realism: Rue Cases-Nègres -- Scientific and Embodied Realism -- The Raw Materials of History Are Not Raw -- Realism and Communication -- Autonomy and Allonomy -- Histories of Reality -- 'The Look of a Room' -- Seven Tasks -- A Digression on Mermaids -- 2 Data Visualisation -- Space and time -- In C -- Temporealities, Temporamentalities and Chronoclasms -- River Monitoring -- Flash Crash: Instrument -- Seismography: Imagination -- Pandemic: From Disaster to Crisis -- A Digression on Angels -- 3 Glitch -- Solar Observatory -- A Disturbance of Memory -- Infernal Affairs: Non-identity and Integral Glitch -- The Departed: Gangster Economics -- Authenticity and Illusion -- Forgetting -- A Digression on Cats -- 4 Abstraction -- The Condition of Music -- De Stijl: Cosmos and Commodity -- QR and Unhappiness -- Mortality and Distribution -- 5 Coda -- Consideration -- Manifesto -- Notes -- References -- Links -- Index.