The cosmic zoom scale, knowledge, and mediation

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Horton, Zachary K., autor (autor)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press [2021]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Scale theory
  • Surfaces of mediation: Cosmic view as drama of resolution
  • An analog universe : mediating scalar temporality in the Eameses' toy films
  • Shaping scale : Powers of ten and the politics of trans-scalar constellation
  • Scale and difference : toward a new ecology
  • A digital universe? Database, scale, and recursive identity
  • Coda : dwelling in the scalar spectrum