Machine Anxieties of Steampunk
«The Machine Anxieties of Steampunk provides a fascinating insight into the contemporary art movement’s relationship to current thinking and major philosophical trends. Importantly, it brings to focus the struggle of today’s individual as she navigates our complex and technologically networked world. Kathe Albrecht reveals that steampunk—egalitarian, inclusive, optimistic—offers a bridge to the future. It is only when we open up the traditional art history canon, as Albrecht does here, that we can forge a path forward that recognizes the contributions of all.»
Susan Fisher Sterling, The Alice West Director, National Museum of Women in the Arts, USA
What is steampunk and why are people across the globe eagerly embracing its neo-Victorian aesthetic? Old-fashioned eye goggles, lace corsets, leather vests, brass gears and gadgets, mechanical clocks, the look appears across popular culture, in movies, art, fashion, and literature. Les mer
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Steampunk champions a new autonomy for the individual caught up in today’s technology-driven society. It expresses optimism for the future but it also delivers a note of caution about our human role in a world of ever more ubiquitous and powerful machines. Thus, despite adopting an aesthetic and lifestyle straight out of the Victorian scientific romance, steampunk addresses significant 21st-century concerns about what lies ahead for humankind. The movement recovers autonomy from prevailing trends even as it challenges us to ask what it is to be human today.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Bloomsbury Visual Arts
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 248
- ISBN
- 9781501349324
- Utgivelsesår
- 2021
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
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«The Machine Anxieties of Steampunk provides a fascinating insight into the contemporary art movement’s relationship to current thinking and major philosophical trends. Importantly, it brings to focus the struggle of today’s individual as she navigates our complex and technologically networked world. Kathe Albrecht reveals that steampunk—egalitarian, inclusive, optimistic—offers a bridge to the future. It is only when we open up the traditional art history canon, as Albrecht does here, that we can forge a path forward that recognizes the contributions of all.»
Susan Fisher Sterling, The Alice West Director, National Museum of Women in the Arts, USA
«Kathe Albrecht’s book opens our eyes to a whole new field of philosophical and aesthetic inquiry, and marks a significant turn in the current debates concerning the future of Homo sapiens.»
George Smith, Founder and President, and Edgar E. Coons, Jr. Professor of New Philosophy, Institute