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- Title
Techno-Logics and Techno-Magics: Phantasmagoria in the Age of Electricity.
- Authors
Röttger, Kati
- Abstract
This article delves into the interaction between newly emerging technologies, sciences and a new theory of knowledge that the spectacles of the phantasmagoria were calling up at the end of the 18th century. It claims that - having been established as a permanent attraction - these practices unfolded a specific energy, caused by the anachronistic mix 'between a science centre and an amusement arcade', between techno-logics (the scientific discourse on technics) and techno-magics (the experience of sensation, wonder and the supernatural caused by technical effects) in a context in which science - as a theory of nature and a theory of knowledge - drastically changed due to the emergence of new, modernizing kinds of machines, such as steam engines, batteries, electrical and atmospheric instruments.
- Subjects
PHANTASMAGORIA; ELECTRICITY; TECHNOLOGICAL innovations
- Publication
Forum Modernes Theater, 2021, Vol 32, Issue 2, p238
- ISSN
0930-5874
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/fmt.2021.0021