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Cultures of obsolescence :

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1137463643

(Number (ISBN

1137470895

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9781137463647

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9781137470898

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b541416

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Cultures of obsolescence :

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[Book]

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history, materiality, and the digital age

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edited by Babette B. Tischleder and Sarah Wasserman.

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New York, NY

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Palgrave Macmillan

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[2015]

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1 ressource en ligne

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Introduction: Thinking Out of Sync: A Theory of Obsolescence; Babette B. Tischleder and Sarah Wasserman --;Prelude: The Obsolescence of the Human; Bill Brown --;PART I: HISTORY --;1. Rags, Bones, and Plastic Bags: Obsolescence, Trash, and American Consumer Culture; Susan Strasser --;2. Architectures of Obsolescence: Lessons for History; Daniel M. Abramson --;PART II: MEDIA AND THE DIGITAL AGE --;3. Proliferation and Obsolescence of the Historical Record in the Digital Era; John Durham Peters --;4. Replacement, Displacement, and Obsolescence in the Digital Age; William Uricchio --;5. The Future History of the Book: Time, Attention, Convention; Kathleen Fitzpatrick --;6. The Pleasures of Paper: Tethering Literature to Obsolete Material Forms; Alexander Starre --;PART III: AESTHETICS --;7. The Horror of Details: Obsolescence and Annihilation in Miyako Ishiuchi's Photography of Atomic Bomb Artifacts; Jani Scandura --;8. The Poetics of Patination in William Gibson; Hanjo Berressem --;9. Untimely: Obsolescence, Late Modernism, and the View Out of Giovanni's Room; MaryAnn Snyder-Ḵrber.

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Obsolescence is fundamental to the experience of modernity, not simply one dimension of an economic system. The contributors to this book investigate obsolescence as a historical phenomenon, an aesthetic practice, and an affective mode.

Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects.

Information technology -- Social aspects.

Product obsolescence -- Social aspects.

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edited by Babette B. Tischleder and Sarah Wasserman.

Babette Bärbel Tischleder

Sarah L Wasserman

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