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520 8 a| Annotationb| In Architectures of Time, Sanford Kwinter offers a critical guide to the modernhistory of time and to the interplay between the physical sciences and the arts. Tracing thetransformation of twentieth-century epistemology to the rise of thermodynamics and statisticalmechanics, Kwinter explains how the demise of the concept of absolute time, and of the classicalnotion of space as a fixed background against which things occur, led to field theory and a physicsof the "event." He suggests that the closed, controlled, and mechanical world of physics gave way tothe approximate, active, and qualitative world of biology as a model of both scientific andmetaphysical explanation.Kwinter examines theory of time and space in Einstein's theories ofrelativity and shows how these ideas were reflected in the writings of the sculptor UmbertoBoccioni, the town planning schema of the Futurist architect Antonio Sant'Elia, the philosophy ofHenri Bergson, and the writings of Franz Kafka. He argues that the writings of Boccioni and thevisionary architecture of Sant'Elia represent the earliest and most profound deployments of theconcepts of field and event. In discussing Kafka's work, he moves away from the thermodynamic modelin favor of the closely related one of Bergsonian duree, or virtuality. He argues that Kafka's workmanifests a coherent cosmology that can be understood only in relation to the constant temporal fluxthat underlies it.;

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Architectures of Time Toward a Theory of the Event in Modernist Culture

Author/creator	Kwinter, Sanford Author
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	Cambridge : MIT Press
Description	232 p. ill 09.000 x 06.000 in.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost
Subjects	Architecture, Modern

Summary	Annotation In Architectures of Time, Sanford Kwinter offers a critical guide to the modernhistory of time and to the interplay between the physical sciences and the arts. Tracing thetransformation of twentieth-century epistemology to the rise of thermodynamics and statisticalmechanics, Kwinter explains how the demise of the concept of absolute time, and of the classicalnotion of space as a fixed background against which things occur, led to field theory and a physicsof the "event." He suggests that the closed, controlled, and mechanical world of physics gave way tothe approximate, active, and qualitative world of biology as a model of both scientific andmetaphysical explanation.Kwinter examines theory of time and space in Einstein's theories ofrelativity and shows how these ideas were reflected in the writings of the sculptor UmbertoBoccioni, the town planning schema of the Futurist architect Antonio Sant'Elia, the philosophy ofHenri Bergson, and the writings of Franz Kafka. He argues that the writings of Boccioni and thevisionary architecture of Sant'Elia represent the earliest and most profound deployments of theconcepts of field and event. In discussing Kafka's work, he moves away from the thermodynamic modelin favor of the closely related one of Bergsonian duree, or virtuality. He argues that Kafka's workmanifests a coherent cosmology that can be understood only in relation to the constant temporal fluxthat underlies it.
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