Transparency e-bog
288,10 DKK
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A wide-ranging illustrated history of transparency as told through the evolution of the glass window Transparency is a mantra of our day. It is key to the Western understanding of a liberal society. We expect transparency from, for instance, political institutions, corporations, and the media. But how did it become such a powerful-and global-idea? From ancient glass to Apple's corporate headqua...
E-bog
288,10 DKK
Forlag
Yale University Press
Udgivet
25 april 2023
Længde
520 sider
Genrer
HB
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780300271522
A wide-ranging illustrated history of transparency as told through the evolution of the glass window Transparency is a mantra of our day. It is key to the Western understanding of a liberal society. We expect transparency from, for instance, political institutions, corporations, and the media. But how did it become such a powerful-and global-idea? From ancient glass to Apple's corporate headquarters, this book is the first to probe how Western people have experienced, conceptualized, and evaluated transparency. Daniel Jutte argues that the experience of transparency has been inextricably linked to one element of Western architecture: the glass window. Windows are meant to be unnoticed. Yet a historical perspective reveals the role that glass has played in shaping how we see and interpret the world. A seemingly "e;pure"e; material, glass has been endowed, throughout history, with political, social, and cultural meaning, in manifold and sometimes conflicting ways. At the same time, Jutte raises questions about the future of vitreous transparency-its costs in terms of visual privacy but also its ecological price tag in an age of accelerating climate change.