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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 2008-04-01
- Pages
- 302
- ISBN
- 9780262731904
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
MIT Press
ISBN-10
0262731908
ISBN-13
9780262731904
eBay Product ID (ePID)
63815944
Product Key Features
Book Title
Notes on the Underground, New Edition : an Essay on Technology, Society, and the Imagination
Number of Pages
302 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, History
Publication Year
2008
Illustrator
Yes
Features
New Edition
Genre
Political Science, Technology & Engineering, Science
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
14.8 Oz
Item Length
9.1 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2007-051623
Reviews
"One can only be delighted that Notes on the Underground is again available in print. Great books can only remain classics if they are reread by new generations of readers. It is now possible to put Williams's book alongside other classics such as Leo Marx's The Machine in the Garden or Raymond Williams's The City and the Country . Notes on the Underground deserves to be added to this prestigious list of studies that continue to inspire all those who defend a holistic yet not necessarily homogeneous view of analyzing science and culture." Jan Baetens Leonardo, Praise for the first edition: "Williams has written a book that is clear and enjoyable..... Notes on the Underground's moral imperative not only makes for fascinating criticism, but also encourages a rethinking of our ecological priorities." John Miller Artforum, Praise for the first edition: "'What are the consequences when human beings dwell in an environment that is predominantly built rather than given?' An uncommonly astute and provocative array of answers are examined through the metaphor of living underground, literally and in literature.... A spellbinder." J. Baldwin Whole Earth Review, Praise for the first edition: "'What are the consequences when human beings dwell in an environment that is predominantly built rather than given?' An uncommonly astute and provocative array of answers are examined through the metaphor of living underground, literally and in literature.... A spellbinder." -- J. Baldwin, ""Whole Earth Review"", "Rosalind Williams has brilliantly and eloquently explored the too often ignored, but salient, concept of the underground in past and present." --Thomas Hughes, author of "Human-Built World," and Professor Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania, "How good to have a new edition of this classic book. Rosalind Williams describes one of the great transformations of the human world, and hence the human psyche--a transition still underway, and still hidden in plain view." --Bill McKibben, Praise for the first edition: "'What are the consequences when human beings dwell in an environment that is predominantly built rather than given?' An uncommonly astute and provocative array of answers are examined through the metaphor of living underground, literally and in literature.... A spellbinder." - J. Baldwin, Whole Earth Review, Praise for the first edition: "Williams has written a book that is clear andenjoyable..... Notes on the Underground's moral imperative not only makes forfascinating criticism, but also encourages a rethinking of our ecological priorities." JohnMiller Artforum, Williams has written a book that is clear and enjoyable... Notes on the Underground's moral imperative not only makes for fascinating criticism, but also encourages a rethinking of our ecological priorities., Praise for the first edition: "'What are the consequences when human beings dwell inan environment that is predominantly built rather than given?' An uncommonly astute and provocativearray of answers are examined through the metaphor of living underground, literally and inliterature.... A spellbinder." J. Baldwin Whole EarthReview, One can only be delighted that Notes on the Underground is again available in print. Great books can only remain classics if they are reread by new generations of readers. It is now possible to put Williams's book alongside other classics such as Leo Marx's The Machine in the Garden or Raymond Williams's The City and the Country . Notes on the Underground deserves to be added to this prestigious list of studies that continue to inspire all those who defend a holistic yet not necessarily homogeneous view of analyzing science and culture.-- Jan Baetens , Leonardo -- What are the consequences when human beings dwell in an environment that is predominantly built rather than given? An uncommonly astute and provocative array of answers are examined through the metaphor of living underground, literally and in literature...A spellbinder. -- J. Baldwin , Whole Earth Review -- Williams has written a book that is clear and enjoyable... Notes on the Underground's moral imperative not only makes for fascinating criticism, but also encourages a rethinking of our ecological priorities. -- John Miller , Artforum --, "One can only be delighted that Notes on the Underground is againavailable in print. Great books can only remain classics if they are reread by new generations ofreaders. It is now possible to put Williams's book alongside other classics such as Leo Marx's The Machine in the Garden or Raymond Williams's The City and theCountry . Notes on the Underground deserves to be added to thisprestigious list of studies that continue to inspire all those who defend a holistic yet notnecessarily homogeneous view of analyzing science and culture." Jan Baetens Leonardo, Praise for the first edition: "Williams has written a book that is clear and enjoyable ..... "Notes on the Underground's" moral imperative not only makes for fascinating criticism, but also encourages a rethinking of our ecological priorities." -- John Miller, ""Artforum"", What are the consequences when human beings dwell in an environment that is predominantly built rather than given? An uncommonly astute and provocative array of answers are examined through the metaphor of living underground, literally and in literature...A spellbinder., One can only be delighted that Notes on the Underground is again available in print. Great books can only remain classics if they are reread by new generations of readers. It is now possible to put Williams's book alongside other classics such as Leo Marx's The Machine in the Garden or Raymond Williams's The City and the Country . Notes on the Underground deserves to be added to this prestigious list of studies that continue to inspire all those who defend a holistic yet not necessarily homogeneous view of analyzing science and culture.
Dewey Edition
22
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal
303.48/3
Edition Description
New Edition
Synopsis
Real and imagined undergrounds in the late nineteenth century viewed as offering a prophetic look at life in today's technology-dominated world., Real and imagined undergrounds in the late nineteenth century viewed as offering a prophetic look at life in today's technology-dominated world. The underground has always played a prominent role in human imaginings, both as a place of refuge and as a source of fear. The late nineteenth century saw a new fascination with the underground as Western societies tried to cope with the pervasive changes of a new social and technological order. In Notes on the Underground , Rosalind Williams takes us inside that critical historical moment, giving equal coverage to actual and imaginary undergrounds. She looks at the real-life invasions of the underground that occurred as modern urban infrastructures of sewers and subways were laid, and at the simultaneous archaeological excavations that were unearthing both human history and the planet's deep past. She also examines the subterranean stories of Verne, Wells, Forster, Hugo, Bulwer-Lytton, and other writers who proposed alternative visions of the coming technological civilization. Williams argues that these imagined and real underground environments provide models of human life in a world dominated by human presence and offer a prophetic look at today's technology-dominated society. In a new essay written for this edition, Williams points out that her book traces the emergence in the nineteenth century of what we would now call an environmental consciousness--an awareness that there will be consequences when humans live in a sealed, finite environment. Today we are more aware than ever of our limited biosphere and how vulnerable it is. Notes on the Underground, now even more than when it first appeared, offers a guide to the human, cultural, and technical consequences of what Williams calls "the human empire on earth."
LC Classification Number
TA712.W55 2008
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