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Action at a distance / John Durham Peters, Florian Sprenger, and Christina Vagt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Peters, John Durham, author.
- Sprenger, Florian, author.
- Vagt, Christina, author.
- Series:
- In search of media
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Physics--Philosophy.
- Physics.
- Space and time--Philosophy.
- Space and time.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 77 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press ; Lüneburg, Germany : Meson Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- "This book explores this crucial phenomenon thereby introducing urgent questions of human interaction, the binding and breaking of time and space, and the entanglement of the material and the immaterial"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 1 Temporalities of Instantaneity: Electric Wires and the Media of Immediacy p. 1 / Florian Sprenge and Erik Born
- 2 A Cornucopia of Meanwhiles p. 29 / John Durham Peters
- 3 Physics and Aesthetics: Simulation as Action at a Distance p. 51 / Christina Vagt.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Peters, John Durham, Action at a distance
- ISBN:
- 9781517910099
- 1517910099
- OCLC:
- 1128726978
- Publisher Number:
- 99985016758
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