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Book Title
World Projects: Global Information before World War I (Volume 45)
ISBN
9780816683512
Subject Area
Art, Political Science, Social Science
Publication Name
World Projects : Global Information before World War I
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Item Length
8.5 in
Subject
Media Studies, Globalization, International Relations / General, Film & Video
Publication Year
2015
Series
Electronic Mediations Ser.
Type
Textbook
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
0.9 in
Author
Markus Krajewski
Item Weight
14.7 Oz
Item Width
5.5 in
Number of Pages
328 Pages
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Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
ISBN-10
0816683514
ISBN-13
9780816683512
eBay Product ID (ePID)
201604433

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
328 Pages
Publication Name
World Projects : Global Information before World War I
Language
English
Subject
Media Studies, Globalization, International Relations / General, Film & Video
Publication Year
2015
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Art, Political Science, Social Science
Author
Markus Krajewski
Series
Electronic Mediations Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
14.7 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in

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Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2014-001556
Reviews
"This is a fascinating--and very entertaining--study. It weaves a tapestry of early technological globalization made up of projects, pipe dreams, and propaganda. There is on the part of the author a noticeable affection for these world infatuations, but there is also the necessary amount of gentle mockery when they become too unworldly."--Geoffrey Winthrop-Young, University of British Columbia, "This is a fascinating--and very entertaining--study. It weaves a tapestry of early technological globalization made up of projects, pipe dreams, and propaganda. There is on the part of the author a noticeable affection for these world infatuations, but there is also the necessary amount of gentle mockery when they become too unworldly."--Geoffrey Winthrop-Young, University of British Columbia    , " World Projects carves out a much needed space for human involvement in networked systems and, by doing so, comments on our own struggles for agency within our highly "globalized" networks today."-- Los Angeles Review of Books "Always informative and has true worth for researchers and media archeologists."-- Neural, "This is a fascinating--and very entertaining--study. It weaves a tapestry of early technological globalization made up of projects, pipe dreams, and propaganda. There is on the part of the author a noticeable affection for these world infatuations, but there is also the necessary amount of gentle mockery when they become too unworldly."--Geoffrey Winthrop-Young, University of British Columbia " World Projects carves out a much needed space for human involvement in networked systems and, by doing so, comments on our own struggles for agency within our highly "globalized" networks today."-- Los Angeles Review of Books "Always informative and has true worth for researchers and media archeologists."-- Neural
Dewey Edition
23
Series Volume Number
45
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
303.48/2
Table Of Content
Contents Preface Acknowledgments 1. The World around 1900 2. The Unity of Diversity: Wilhelm Ostwald's World Formations 3. World History of Technology: Dr. Franz Maria Feldhaus 4. Systems Economy: Walther Rathenau, Man of the World 5. As for the Rest: In Search of the World's Remains Notes Bibliography Index
Synopsis
Markus Krajewski is emerging as a leading scholar in the field of media archaeology, which seeks to trace cultural history through the media networks that enable and structure it. In World Projects he opens a new portal into the history of globalization by examining several large-scale projects that, at the beginning of the twentieth century, shared a grand yet unachievable goal: bringing order to the world. Drawing from a broad array of archival materials, Krajewski reveals how expanding commercial relations, growing international scientific agreements, and an imperial monopolization of the political realm spawned ambitious global projects. World Projects contends that the late nineteenth-century networks of cables, routes, and shipping lines--of junctions, crossovers, and transfers--merged into a "multimedia system" that was a prerequisite for conceiving a world project. As examples, he presents the work of three big-thinking "plansmiths," each of whose work mediates between two discursive fields: the chemist and natural philosopher Wilhelm Ostwald, who spent years promoting a "world auxiliary language" and a world currency; the self-taught "engineer" and self-anointed authority on science and technology Franz Maria Feldhaus, who labored to produce an all-encompassing "world history of technology"; and Walther Rathenau, who put economics to the service of politics and quickly transformed the German economy. With a keen eye for the outlandish as well as the outsized, Krajewski shows how media, technological structures, and naked human ambition paved the way for global-scale ventures that together created the first "world wide web.", A leading scholar of media archaeology, MarkusKrajewski explores the history of globalization by examining severallarge-scale projects that, at the beginning of the twentieth century, shared agrand yet unachievable goal: bringing order to the world. He shows how media,technological structures, and naked human ambition paved the way forglobal-scale ventures that created the first "world wide web."
LC Classification Number
JZ1308.K7313 2014

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