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Author : Andreas Killen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520243625
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Berlin Electropolis written by Andreas Killen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
Author : Andreas Killen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520931637
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Berlin Electropolis written by Andreas Killen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-01-16 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Berlin Electropolis ties the German discourse on nervousness in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to Berlin's transformation into a capital of the second industrial revolution. Focusing on three key groups—railway personnel, soldiers, and telephone operators—Andreas Killen traces the emergence in the 1880s and then later decline of the belief that modernity caused nervous illness. During this period, Killen explains, Berlin became arguably the most advanced metropolis in Europe. A host of changes, many associated with breakthroughs in technologies of transportation, communication, and leisure, combined to radically alter the shape and tempo of everyday life in Berlin. The resulting consciousness of accelerated social change and the shocks and afflictions that accompanied it found their consummate expression in the discourse about nervousness. Wonderfully researched and clearly written, this book offers a wealth of new insights into the nature of the modern metropolis, the psychological aftermath of World War I, and the operations of the German welfare state. Killen also explores cultural attitudes toward electricity, the evolution of psychiatric thought and practice, and the status of women workers in Germany's rapidly industrializing economy. Ultimately, he argues that the backlash against the welfare state that occurred during the late Weimar Republic brought about the final decoupling of modernity and nervous illness.
Author : Professor Christian Hermansen Cordua
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409488470
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Manifestoes and Transformations in the Early Modernist City written by Professor Christian Hermansen Cordua and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012-11-28 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The industrialization of the nineteenth-century European city facilitated developing conceptions of the model city, and allowed for large scale urban transformations. The urban discourse in the latter half of the nineteenth century was consequently dominated by a dialectic exchange between the ideal and the practical, a debate played out in the formation of the modern metropolis. Manifestoes and Transformations is the first work to deal with urban utopias and their relationship with actual urban interventions. Bringing together a carefully chosen, wide-ranging team of experts, the book provides a broad, contextual exploration of the ideas and urban practices which are the foundations of our conception of the contemporary city. As such, it is a valuable resource for students interested in the formation of the modernist city.
Author : Timothy Moss
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262360896
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)
Download or read book Remaking Berlin written by Timothy Moss and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of Berlin's turbulent history through the lens of its water and energy infrastructures. In Remaking Berlin, Timothy Moss takes a novel perspective on Berlin's turbulent twentieth-century history, examining it through the lens of its water and energy infrastructures. He shows that, through a century of changing regimes, geopolitical interventions, and socioeconomic volatility, Berlin's networked urban infrastructures have acted as medium and manifestation of municipal, national, and international politics and policies. Moss traces the coevolution of Berlin and its infrastructure systems from the creation of Greater Berlin in 1920 to remunicipalization of services in 2020, encompassing democratic, fascist, and socialist regimes.
Author : Yucel Yanikdag
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748665803
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)
Download or read book Healing the Nation written by Yucel Yanikdag and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-20 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yucel Yanikdag explores how, during the First World War, Ottoman prisoners of war and military doctors discursively constructed their nation as a community, and at the same time attempted to exclude certain groups from that nation. Those excluded were not always from different ethnic or religious groups as you might expect. The educated officer prisoners excluded the uncivilised and illiterate peasants from their concept of the nation, while doctors used international socio-medicine to exclude all those "e; officers, enlisted men, civilians "e; they deemed to be hereditarily weak.
Author : Stephen Barber
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780237677
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Berlin Bodies written by Stephen Barber and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The capital of Germany and home to 3.5 million people, Berlin has one the most fascinating histories in all of Europe. At end of the nineteenth century it rapidly developed into a major urban center, and today it is a site where the scars of history sit alongside ultra-modern urban developments. It is a place where people have figured in an especially intimate relationship with the wider fabric of the city, in which bodily interaction has been an important aspect of day-to-day urban life. In this book, Stephen Barber offers an innovative history of the city, one that focuses on how the human body has shaped the city’s very streets. Spanning the twentieth century and moving up to today, Barber’s book offers a unique account of Berlin’s development. He explores previously neglected material from the city’s audio and visual archives to examine how people interacted with the city’s streets, buildings, squares, and public spaces. He recounts a history of riots, ruins, nightclubs, crowds, architectural experiments, citywide spectacles, film, art, and performances, showing how these human forces have affected the structure of the city. Through this innovative approach, Barber offers a new way to think about modern urban spaces as corporeal spaces, and how people exert a cumulative effect on cities over time.
Author : Iain Boyd Whyte
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520951492
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Metropolis Berlin written by Iain Boyd Whyte and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metropolis Berlin: 1880-1940 reconstitutes the built environment of Berlin during the period of its classical modernity using over two hundred contemporary texts, virtually all of which are published in English translation for the first time. They are from the pens of those who created Berlin as one of the world’s great cities and those who observed this process: architects, city planners, sociologists, political theorists, historians, cultural critics, novelists, essayists, and journalists. Divided into nineteen sections, each prefaced by an introductory essay, the account unfolds chronologically, with the particular structural concerns of the moment addressed in sequence—be they department stores in 1900, housing in the 1920s, or parade grounds in 1940. Metropolis Berlin: 1880-1940 not only details the construction of Berlin, but explores homes and workplaces, public spaces, circulation, commerce, and leisure in the German metropolis as seen through the eyes of all social classes, from the humblest inhabitants of the city slums, to the great visionaries of the modern city, and the demented dictator resolved to remodel Berlin as Germania.
Author : Karsten Uhl
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350053228
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Technology in Modern German History written by Karsten Uhl and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-27 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People often associate postwar Germany with technology and with its products of mass consumption, such as luxury cars. Even pop music, most notably Kraftwerk (literally 'power station') with songs such as Autobahn, Radioactivity or We are the Robots, disseminates the stereotype of a close link between German culture and technology. Technology in Modern German History explores various forms of technology in 200 years of German history and explains how technology has been fundamental to the shaping of modern Germany. The book investigates the role technology played in transforming Germany's culture, society and politics during the 19th and 20th centuries. Key topics covered include the different stages of industrialization, the growth of networked cities, and the triumph of a teleological narrative of technology as progress. Moreover, it provides a critical revision of the history of high technology which reveals how high-tech euphoria determined certain paths in history regardless of whether the respective technology proved to be successful. In its second part, the volume introduces new avenues in scholarship. Karsten Uhl examines neglected areas, such as rural technologies or the often-overlooked importance of everyday technologies: How did consumers or workers use new technologies? How did they appropriate and modify them? Lastly, the book considers the final decades of the 20th century and asks if they provided a significant new quality of technological change: To what degree and effects did computerization transform professional and private life in Germany? In culture and politics, reinforced by the German variety of environmentalism, the idea of progress was challenged, as the once prevailing vision of progress gave way to new apprehensions of uncertainty evident to this day. Technology in Modern German History brings fascinating insight into a much neglected area of German history for students and scholars alike.
Author : Renate Dürr
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000452042
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Threatened Knowledge written by Renate Dürr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-23 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Threatened Knowledge discusses the practices of knowing, not-knowing, and not wanting to know from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. In times of "fake news", processes of forgetting and practices of non-knowledge have sparked the interest of historical and sociological research. The common ground between all the contributions in this volume is the assumption that knowledge does not simply increase over time and thus supplant phases of not-knowing. Moreover, the contributions show that knowing and not-knowing function in very similar ways, which means they can be analysed along similar methodological lines. Given the implied juxtaposition between emotions and rational thinking, the role of emotions in the process of knowledge production has often been trivialized in more traditional approaches to the subject. Through a broad geographical and chronological approach, spanning from prognostic texts in the Carolingian period to stock market speculation in early-twentieth-century United States, this volume demonstrates the important role of emotions in the history of science. By bringing together cultural historians of knowledge, emotions, finance, and global intellectual history, Threatened Knowledge is a useful tool for all students and scholars of the history of knowledge and science on a global scale.
Author : Christina Keseberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Kraftwerke in Berlin written by Christina Keseberg and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Numerous historic power station buildings are impressive records of an era when Berlin was Europe's most important industrial city. The Berliner Elektrizitatswerke AG (Bewag) today has at its disposal a unique portfolio of treasured industrial architecture, the majority of which is meanwhile awaiting reutilisation. The book not only relates the story of Berlin's power station architecture, but also describes the enormous development potential that is connected with reutilising historic industrial architecture. With the example of an existing project's achievements, the creative possibilities are highlighted for reutilisation that preserves the building heritage and remains economically viable. In detail and with many illustrations, power stations now taken out of service are introduced and possibilities for their reuse are described. The book presents a comprehensive history of "Electropolis Berlin", from its beginnings, as well as insights for the future. Book jacket.
Author : Minsoo Kang
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674049357
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Sublime Dreams of Living Machines written by Minsoo Kang and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-28 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historian Minsoo Kang argues that to properly understand the human-as-machine and the human-as-fundamentally-different-from-machine, we must trace the origins of these ideas and examine how they were transformed by intellectual, cultural, and artistic appearances of the automaton throughout the history of the West. Kang tracks the first appearance of the automaton in ancient myths through the medieval and Renaissance periods, marks the proliferation of the automaton as a central intellectual concept in the Scientific Revolution and the subsequent backlash during the Enlightenment, and details appearances in Romantic literature and the introduction of the living machine in the Industrial Age. He concludes with a reflection on the destructive confrontation between humanity and machinery in the modern era and the reverberations of the humanity-machinery theme today. --
Author : Jeffrey Sconce
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478002441
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)
Download or read book The Technical Delusion written by Jeffrey Sconce and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-08 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delusions of electronic persecution have been a preeminent symptom of psychosis for over two hundred years. In The Technical Delusion Jeffrey Sconce traces the history and continuing proliferation of this phenomenon from its origins in Enlightenment anatomy to our era of global interconnectivity. While psychiatrists have typically dismissed such delusions of electronic control as arbitrary or as mere reflections of modern life, Sconce demonstrates a more complex and interdependent history of electronics, power, and insanity. Drawing on a wide array of psychological case studies, literature, court cases, and popular media, Sconce analyzes the material and social processes that have shaped historical delusions of electronic contamination, implantation, telepathy, surveillance, and immersion. From the age of telegraphy to contemporary digitality, the media emerged within such delusions to become the privileged site for imagining the merger of electronic and political power, serving as a paranoid conduit between the body and the body politic. Looking to the future, Sconce argues that this symptom will become increasingly difficult to isolate, especially as remote and often secretive powers work to further integrate bodies, electronics, and information.
Author : Joseph Ben Prestel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192518178
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book Emotional Cities written by Joseph Ben Prestel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emotional Cities offers an innovative account of the history of cities in the second half of the nineteenth century. Analyzing debates about emotions and urban change, it questions the assumed dissimilarity of the history of European and Middle Eastern cities during this period. The author shows that between 1860 and 1910, contemporaries in both Berlin and Cairo began to negotiate the transformation of the urban realm in terms of emotions. Looking at the ways in which a variety of urban dwellers, from psychologists to bar maids, framed recent changes in terms of their effect on love, honor, or disgust, the book reveals striking parallels between the histories of the two cities. By combining urban history and the history of emotions, Prestel proposes a new perspective on the emergence of different, yet comparable cities at the end of the nineteenth century.
Author : David C. Goodman
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415200820
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The European Cities and Technology Reader written by David C. Goodman and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European Cities and Technology Reader is divided into three main sections presenting key readings on: Cities of the Industrial Revolution (to 1870), European Cities since 1870 and the Urban Technology Transfer.
Author : Robin Schuldenfrei
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400890489
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Luxury and Modernism written by Robin Schuldenfrei and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While modernism was publicized as a fusion of technology, new materials, and rational aesthetics to improve the lives of ordinary people, it was often out of reach to the very masses it purportedly served. Luxury and Modernism shows how luxury was present in bold, literal forms in modern designs—from lavish materials and costly technologies to deluxe buildings and household objects—and in subtler ways as well, such as social milieus and modes of living. In a period of social unrest and extreme wealth disparity between the common worker and those at the helm of capitalist enterprises generating immense profits, architects envisioned modern designs providing solutions for a more equitable future. Robin Schuldenfrei exposes the disconnect between modernism's utopian discourse and its luxury objects and elite architectural commissions. Despite the movement's egalitarian rhetoric, many modern designs addressed the desires of the privileged individual. Yet as Schuldenfrei demonstrates, luxury was integral not only to how modern buildings and objects were designed, manufactured, and sold, but has contributed to modernism's appeal to this day. This beautifully illustrated book provides a new interpretation of modern architecture and design in Germany during the heyday of the Bauhaus and the Werkbund, tracing modernism's lasting allure to its many manifestations of luxury. Schuldenfrei casts the work of legendary figures such as Peter Behrens, Walter Gropius, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in an entirely different light, revealing the complexities and contradictions inherent to modernism's promotion and consumption.
Author : Cate I. Reilly
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231560397
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Psychic Empire written by Cate I. Reilly and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-11 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In nineteenth-century imperial Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, new scientific fields like psychophysics, empirical psychology, clinical psychiatry, and neuroanatomy transformed the understanding of mental life in ways long seen as influencing modernism. Turning to the history of psychiatric classification for mental illnesses, Cate I. Reilly argues that modernist texts can be understood as critically responding to objective scientific models of the psyche, not simply illustrating their findings. Modernist works written in industrializing Central and Eastern Europe historicize the representation of consciousness as a quantifiable phenomenon within techno-scientific modernity. Looking beyond modernism’s well-studied relationship to psychoanalysis, this book tells the story of the non-Freudian vocabulary for mental illnesses that forms the precursor to today’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Developed by the German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin in the 1890s, this psychiatric taxonomy grew from the claim that invisible mental illnesses were analogous to physical phenomena in the natural world. Reilly explores how figures such as Georg Büchner, Ernst Toller, Daniel Paul Schreber, Nikolai Evreinov, Vsevolod Ivanov, and Santiago Ramón y Cajal understood the legal and political consequences of representing mental life in physical terms. Working across literary studies, the history of science, psychoanalytic criticism, critical theory, and political philosophy, Psychic Empire is an original account of modernism that shows the link between nineteenth-century scientific research on the mental health of national populations and twenty-first-century globalized, neuroscientific accounts of psychopathology and sanity.
Author : Josef Paul Kleihues
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Berlin/New York written by Josef Paul Kleihues and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 1993 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emerging from a 1987 conference in Berlin, entitled "The City of the Twenty-first Century," at which architects and planners debated the problems and opportunities confronting the great 20th-century metropolises of Berlin and New York, this profusely illustrated (bandw) study is comprised of essays by 34 noted German and American scholars and critics, who address issues of urban planning--the growth of transportation networks, the birth of the skyscraper, the garden city movement--as well as the history of the modern movement in art and architecture. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
