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David E. Nye

Seven Sublimes

David E. Nye

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MIT Press
17 May 2022
Technology: general issues
A reconception of the sublime to include experiences of disaster, war, outer space, virtual reality, and the Anthropocene.

A reconception of the sublime to include experiences of disaster, war, outer space, virtual reality, and the Anthropocene.

We experience the sublime-overwhelming amazement and exhilaration-in at least seven different forms. Gazing from the top of a mountain at a majestic vista is not the same thing as looking at a city from the observation deck of a skyscraper; looking at images constructed from Hubble Space Telescope data is not the same as living through a powerful earthquake. The varieties of sublime experience have increased during the last two centuries, and we need an expanded terminology to distinguish between them. In this book, David Nye delineates seven forms of the sublime- natural, technological, disastrous, martial, intangible, digital, and environmental, which express seven different relationships to space, time, and identity.

These forms of the sublime can be experienced at historic sites, ruins, cities, national parks, or on the computer screen. We find them in beautiful landscapes and gigantic dams, in battle and on battlefields, in images of black holes and microscopic particles. The older forms are tangible, when we are physically present and our senses are fully engaged; increasingly, others are intangible, mediated through technology. Nye examines each of the seven sublimes, framed by philosophy but focused on historical examples.
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Imprint:   MIT Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm, 
Weight:   567g
ISBN:   9780262046923
ISBN 10:   026204692X
Pages:   200
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Preface vii Acknowledgments ix Tangible Sublimes  1 Natural 3 2 Technological 17 3 Disastrous 35 4 Martial 53 Mediated Sublimes 5 Intangible 75 6 Digital? 93 7 Environmental 115 Conclusions 8 Nationalism and the Seven Sublimes 135 9 Sublime Landscapes and Spectacles 151 Epilogue: Future Sublimes? 165 Notes 171 Bibliography 189 Index 209

David E. Nye is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Minnesota's Charles Babbage Institute and Professor Emeritus of American Studies at the University of Southern Denmark. The author of twelve books with the MIT Press, including American Technological Sublime, he was awarded the Leonardo da Vinci Medal in 2005 and was knighted by the Queen of Denmark in 2013.

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