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Title: Forensic Media
Condition: New
Subtitle: Reconstructing Accidents in Accelerated Modernity
ISBN-10: 0822357534
EAN: 9780822357537
ISBN: 9780822357537
Publisher: Duke University Press
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 05/11/2014
Description: In Forensic Media, Greg Siegel considers how photographic, electronic, and digital media have been used to record and reconstruct accidents, particularly high-speed crashes and catastrophes. Focusing in turn on the birth of the field of forensic engineering, Charles Babbage's invention of a "self-registering apparatus" for railroad trains, flight-data and cockpit voice recorders ("black boxes"), the science of automobile crash-testing, and various accident-reconstruction techniques and technologies, Siegel shows how "forensic media" work to transmute disruptive chance occurrences into reassuring narratives of causal succession. Through historical and philosophical analyses, he demonstrates that forensic media are as much technologies of cultural imagination as they are instruments of scientific inscription, as imbued with ideological fantasies as they are compelled by institutional rationales. By rethinking the historical links and cultural relays between accidents and forensics, Siegel sheds new light on the corresponding connections between media, technology, and modernity.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Item Weight: 376g
Author: Greg Siegel
Genre: Technology & Engineering
Book Series: Sign, Storage, Transmission
Topic: Society & Culture, Social Sciences
Release Year: 2014

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