Holographic Visions

Holographic Visions
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Publisher : OUP Oxford
Total Pages : 541
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ISBN-10 : 9780191513886
ISBN-13 : 0191513881
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Book Synopsis Holographic Visions by : Sean F. Johnston

Download or read book Holographic Visions written by Sean F. Johnston and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-04-06 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holography exploded on the scientific world in 1964, but its slow fuse had been burning much longer. Over the next four decades, the echoes of that explosion reached scientists, engineers, artists and popular culture. Emerging from classified military research, holography evolved to represent the power of post-war physics, an aesthetic union of art and science, the countercultural meanderings of holism, a cottage industry for waves of would-be entrepreneurs and a fertile plot device for science fiction. New working cultures sprang up to mutate holography, redefining its products, reshaping its audiences and reconceiving its applications. The outcomes included ever more sublime holograms and exquisitely sensitive measuring techniques - but also priority disputes, prurience and poisonous business rivalries. New subjects cross intellectual borders, and so do their explanations. This book draws on the history and philosophy of science and technology, social studies, politics and cultural history to trace the trajectory of holography. The result is an in-depth account of how new science emerges. Based on unprecedented interviews with pioneer holographers and extensive archival research, it reveals how science, technology, art and wider culture are entwined in the modern world.


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