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050 00 $aT173.8$b.S267 2008
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100 1 $aSarlo, Beatriz.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80159702
240 10 $aImaginación tecnica.$lEnglish$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2007029092
245 14 $aThe technical imagination :$bArgentine culture's modern dreams /$cBeatriz Sarlo ; translated by Xavier Callahan.
260 $aStanford, Calif. :$bStanford University Press,$c2008.
300 $axiii, 185 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $a"Originally published in Spanish in 1992 under the title La imaginación técnica: sueños modernos de la cultura argentina, c1992, Ediciones Nueva Visión, Buenos Aires"--T.p. verso.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 151-185).
505 00 $gPt. I.$tLetters -- $g1.$tHoracio Quiroga and Technoscientific Theory -- $g2.$tArlt: Technology in the City -- $g3.$tPopular Science and the Popularizing Press -- $gPt. II.$tHistories -- $g4.$tInventors: Technology and Mythmaking -- $g5.$tRadio, Cinema, and Television: Long-Distance Communication -- $g6.$tDoctors, Clairvoyants, and Quacks.
520 1 $a"In what Beatriz Sarlo calls six "episodes," ranging from the proto-science fiction of Horacio Quiroga and the apocalyptic urban surrealism of Roberto Arlt through the development of mass media, tales of inventors and inventions, and an entertaining tour of "weird science" and medical quackery. The Technical Imagination examines how technology entered the popular imagination in 1920s and 1930s Argentina. Often wry, but always sympathetic, and dispensing erudition with a light touch, Sarlo shows how the products of modern technology (radio, the telephone and telegraph, movies, and rudimentary forays into television, among other phenomena) announced an unprecedented break with the past while also provoking an ironic recrudescence of age-old superstitions. Although the new technologies helped to shape notions of modernity at all levels of Argentine society, Sarlo focuses particularly on the working-class amateur inventors of Buenos Aires, and on how their inventions - even when they failed, as they frequently did - point to what can he recognized today as the reorganization of an intellectual hierarchy, and thus of an era's, and a culture's, intellectual history."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aTechnological innovations$zArgentina.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009102975
650 0 $aInventions$zArgentina.
650 0 $aSocial perception$zArgentina.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0716/2007017226.html
852 00 $bglx$hT173.8$i.S267 2008