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Sto caricando le informazioni... Pandæmonium : 1660-1886 : The coming of the machine as seen by contemporary observers (1985)di Humphrey Jennings
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I'm not necessarily aware of other histories constructed like this; letters, journalism, speeches, poems, songs, etc of an era, delineating a social experience. Perhaps it would entail a tremendous amount of work for little profit–Jennings barely inserts himself into the texts, though I wonder if he'd lived to complete Pandaemonium, he wouldn't have trimmed some fat or editorialized to a greater extent. Nevertheless, Jennings makes some really fascinating juxtapositions, such as picking out the thread between burgeoning material sciences and the treatment of workers as objects or people like Coleridge or Wordsworth mourning what they know is to be lost in the gain of a relative few. Pandaemonium was sometimes a slog; I was more more interested in labor conditions than I was every other entry dealing with some guy's hot air balloon travel or another guy's monkeying around with test tubes. I was disappointed to find that there wasn't much firsthand account of the psychological effect and existential torment of enclosure but that's on me; it's not like those people were publishing. More than anything else, Jennings' work tells you nothing's really new; you might as well be reading a book compiling the exhortation of STEM boosters and all the different ways they can talk themselves into believing exploitation and alienation of others is actually progress. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Collecting texts taken from letters, diaries, literature, scientific journals and reports, Pandæmonium gathers a beguiling narrative as it traces the development of the machine age in Britain.Covering the years between 1660 and 1886, it offers a rich tapestry of human experience, from eyewitness reports of the Luddite Riots and the Peterloo Massacre to more intimate accounts of child labour, Utopian communities, the desecration of the natural world, ground-breaking scientific experiments, and the coming of the railways.Humphrey Jennings, co-founder of the Mass Observation movement of the 1930s and acclaimed documentary film-maker, assembled an enthralling narrative of this key period in Britain's national consciousness. The result is a highly original artistic achievement in its own right.Thanks to the efforts of his daughter, Marie-Louise Jennings, Pandæmonium was originally published in 1985, and in 2012 it was the inspiration behind Danny Boyle's electrifying Opening Ceremony for the London Olympic Games. Frank Cottrell Boyce, who wrote the scenario for the ceremony, contributes a revealing new foreword for this edition. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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technically didn't finish this, but got half way and skipped around a bit. given it's a compilation of fragments i feel it's fair to review it/say i finished it without reading every word. maybe one day I'll come back to it ( )