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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Technological Sublime"”.
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The Steep Climb to Low Earth Orbit: A History of the Space Elevator Community's Battle Against the Rocket Paradigm
… conventional propulsion sources, resulted from a technological paradigm built around the rocket and supported by a traditional engineering culture. After its triumph in landing men on the Moon from 1969 to 1972, the United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) sought to …
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A fabulist’s alternity & Lovecraft and the grotesque sublime
… (1890 – 1937), analysing Lovecraft’s use of the sublime and the grotesque. This analysis employs the sublime as explained by Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797) in A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of The Sublime and the Beautiful (1757) and the technological sublime; and the grotesque …
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Developing game worlds : gaming, technology, and innovation in Peru
… technology industries than forms of the "technological sublime" that have been recurrent over Peruvian technological history. Driven by creative rather than commercial objectives, people interested in game development figure out ways to get around gaps in existing training options to …
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Aesthetics of the Brink: Environmental Crisis and the Sublime in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
… more involved with the ethical implications of technological advancement on society than the fantastic technologies he writes of. Given these similarities, notions of nature and the environment might seem ancillary to an analysis of these texts. These issues, however, are precisely what my …
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Aesthetics of the Brink: Environmental Crisis and the Sublime in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
… more involved with the ethical implications of technological advancement on society than the fantastic technologies he writes of. Given these similarities, notions of nature and the environment might seem ancillary to an analysis of these texts. These issues, however, are precisely what my …