Savage mind to savage machine : racial science and twentieth-century design / Ginger Nolan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nolan, Ginger, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics, Modern--20th century.

Aesthetics, Modern.

Ethnic attitudes.

Human engineering.

Technology--Social aspects.

Technology.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (284 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2021]

Summary:

"An examination of how concepts of "the savage" facilitated technological approaches to modernist design"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

The Architecture Machine: Industrial Design and Theories of Racial Evolution

The Bauhaus and the Aura of Authorship: Class and Race in the Age of Technological Reproducibility

Post-War European Modernism: Or, What the Primitive Hut Really Said

Bricolage, Megastructure, Interface: Yona Friedman and the Humanitarian Machine

The Earth Unfolded: Aspen, Africa, and the Geopolitics of Environment

Harlem Speaks to Aspen: Environmental Politics versus Environmental Design

Pentecostal Technologies: The Architecture Machine (Again)

Technological Sovereignty and the Global South

Conclusion: The Present and Future of Spiritual Ergonomics.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 7, 2022)

ISBN:

1-4529-6551-X

1-4529-6550-1

OCLC:

1257084043