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Cosmic Zoom : Scale, Knowledge, and Mediation, Hardcover by Horton, Zachary, ...
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- Book Title
- Cosmic Zoom : Scale, Knowledge, and Mediation
- ISBN
- 9780226742304
- Subject Area
- Literary Criticism, Science, Social Science, Philosophy
- Publication Name
- Cosmic Zoom : Scale, Knowledge, and Mediation
- Item Length
- 9.2 in
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Subject
- Philosophy & Social Aspects, Media Studies, General
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Item Width
- 6.5 in
- Item Weight
- 19 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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In The Powers of Ten by Charles and Ray Eames, a view of two people enjoying a picnic zooms up and away to show their surroundings, moving progressively farther into space, then zooms back in for a close-up of the hand of the picnicker, travelling deep into the microscopic realm. This is one of the most iconic examples of the "cosmic zoom," a trope that has influenced countless media forms over the past seventy years. Horton uses the cosmic zoom as a starting point to develop a cross-disciplinary theory of scale as mediated difference. He considers the origins of our notions of scale, how scalar mediation functions differently in analog and digital modes, and how cosmic zoom media has influenced scientific and popular views of the world. Analyzing literature, film, digital media, and database history, Horton establishes a much-needed framework for thinking about scale across multiple domains and disciplines.
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University of Chicago Press
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022674230x
ISBN-13
9780226742304
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20038905802
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Publication Name
Cosmic Zoom : Scale, Knowledge, and Mediation
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Philosophy & Social Aspects, Media Studies, General
Publication Year
2021
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Science, Social Science, Philosophy
Number of Pages
288 Pages
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Item Length
9.2 in
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Item Weight
19 Oz
Additional Product Features
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2020-040705
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Scholarly & Professional
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B105.S33h67 2020
Reviews
Down the rabbit hole, and up again, across mediated universes and powers of ten, resolution to resolution, The Cosmic Zoom is an outstanding scale-hopping piece of scholarship. Horton brings to focus both why scales are crucial to how we understand disciplinary knowledge and how scalar difference is a core part of the transformational powers that define contemporary aesthetic and epistemic cultures., In this illuminating and well-researched book, Horton takes us on a journey through different scales of the universe. Rather than entice us with the prospect of a godlike glide across a cosmic zipline, he exhorts us to take responsibility for scalar relations. Through its variously enfolded media ecologies, The Cosmic Zoom thus ends up performing an ethics of mediation for our troubled world., Scales are musical things to practice, metric things to weigh with, ladders to ascend the heavens, and climaxes of our stories. Horton shows that scale is a matter of shape as much as size, of quality as much as quantity in this cosmic journey through postwar cultural forms that comment on the human, and more-than-human, condition. There are seismic implications here, for not only media studies, but any discipline, or reader, in need of a philosophy of scale., The upshot of this granular media history is an urgent theoretical insight into how humans have handled differences in scale and how they might do so differently, urgent because the mishandling of the question threatens to impose an early end to our existence and that of many other species. The books, films, and digital media that Horton studies are a powerful scaffolding for this argument, but the real material he wants us to consider are the theoretical armatures themselves, the ones that our various media and our accommodations in the world are built on.
Table of Content
1 Scale Theory 2 Surfaces of Mediation: Cosmic View as Drama of Resolution 3 An Analog Universe: Mediating Scalar Temporality in the Eameses' Toy Films 4 Shaping Scale: Powers of Ten and the Politics of Trans-Scalar Constellation 5 Scale and Difference: Toward a New Ecology 6 A Digital Universe? Database, Scale, and Recursive Identity Coda Dwelling in the Scalar Spectrum Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2021
Dewey Decimal
121.34
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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