World Projects: Global Information before World War I

Author:   Markus Krajewski ,  Charles Marcrum II
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Volume:   45
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9780816695935


Pages:   328
Publication Date:   01 January 2015
Format:   Hardback
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"A leading scholar of media archaeology, Markus Krajewski explores 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. He shows how media, technological structures, and naked human ambition paved the way for global-scale ventures that created the first ""world wide web."""

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Author:   Markus Krajewski ,  Charles Marcrum II
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:   University of Minnesota Press
Volume:   45
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.522kg
ISBN:  

9780816695935


ISBN 10:   0816695938
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   01 January 2015
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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

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<i>World Projects</i> 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. --<i>Los Angeles Review of Books</i></p> Always informative and has true worth for researchers and media archeologists. --<i>Neural</i></p>


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


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


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Markus Krajewski is professor of media history and theory at the University of Basel, Switzerland. He is the author of Paper Machines: About Cards and Catalogs, 1548 –1929. Charles Marcrum II is a translator of nonfiction and literary works. He earned an AM degree in Germanic languages and literatures from Harvard University.

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