Tag: 1995

Disenchanted Night: The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century, Wolfgang Schivelbusch, 1995

http://www.amazon.com/Disenchanted-Night-Industrialization-Nineteenth-Century/dp/0520203542/

Amazon.com Review
The story of the development of artificial light in the 19th century is not only a history of its technology but a revelation of how that technology helped forge modern consciousness. The range of subjects includes the political symbolism of streetlamps, the rise of nightlife and the shop window, and the importance of the salon in the bourgeois culture. Very Highly Recommended.

邦訳はこちら

http://www.amazon.co.jp/闇をひらく光―19世紀における照明の歴史-ヴォルフガング-シヴェルブシュ/dp/4588276433/

これは続編(20世紀編？）ドイツ語の原書と日本語訳しかない。

http://www.amazon.co.jp/光と影のドラマトゥルギー―20世紀における電気照明の登場-ヴォルフガング-シヴェルブシュ/dp/4588276441/

Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity, Marc Augé, 1995

About Marc Augé

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Aug%C3%A9

Marc Augé (born 1935 in Poitiers) is a French anthropologist.

In an essay and book of the same title, Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity (1995), Marc Augé coined the phrase “non-place” to refer to places of transience that do not hold enough significance to be regarded as “places”. Examples of a non-place would be a motorway, a hotel room, an airport or a supermarket.[1]

About the book

  • Non-Places: An introduction to supermodernity, Marc Auge, 1995
    • Introduction
      • 1992, urbanization, emerging ‘magelopolice’
      • triple ‘decentring’
        • 1st decenter: City and its importance is measured by its connection and attractiveness to the others.
        • 2nd decenter: Dwelling. Helmes has taken Hestia’s place -> means to day the computer and computer have replaces the hearth, where shadowy, feminine center of the house used to be.
        • 3rd decenter:  Individual. Decentered in a sense from himself. Mobilephones, TV, computers.. an individual is decentered from his immediate physical surrounding.