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The Machine Anxieties of Steampunk: Contemporary Philosophy, Victorian Aesthetics, and the Future

Autor Kathe Hicks Albrecht
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 aug 2024
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. But steampunk is both an aesthetic program and a way-of-life and its underlying philosophy is the key to its broad appeal. Steampunk champions a new autonomy for the individual caught up in today's technology-driven world. It expresses optimism for the future but it also delivers a note of caution about our human role in light of the ubiquitous machine. Thus, despite adopting an aesthetic and lifestyle straight out of the Victorian scientific romance, steampunk addresses significant twenty-first 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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781501384271
ISBN-10: 1501384279
Pagini: 240
Ilustrații: 20 color and 19 b&w illus
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

Gives its readers a clear understanding of how popular culture connects to philosophy and art theory

Notă biografică

Kathe Hicks Albrecht is a philosophy, aesthetics, and art theory instructor at the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, USA. She has taught in the college classroom, educational seminars, and professional workshops. Her work on educational issues is broadly published and has appeared in Art Documentation, MCN SPECTRA, Getty Institute Publications, among others.

Cuprins

Introduction1. The Origins of Steampunk: Science Fiction and Victoriana2. The Victorian/Steampunk Connection: Upheaval, Discovery and the Birth of Modernism3. The Steampunk Aesthetic in Contemporary Visual Art4. Performing Steampunk5. Steampunk's Challenge to Contemporary Philosophy6. Beyond SteampunkBibliographyNotesIndex

Recenzii

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.
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.