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Dust, A History of the Small and Invisible (review)
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This article is published in Journal of Interdisciplinary History.The article was published on 2001-02-01. It has received 6 citations till now.read more
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Skin that wears: body-site as a context for designing wearable artefacts
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate body-sites as a situational context for designing and encountering wearable artefacts in relation to the phenomenological body and find that skin is a probable location for experiences and practices of daily living.
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Scraping the surface: the techno-politics of modern streets in turn-of-twentieth-century Alexandria
TL;DR: This paper examined how the introduction of modern streets in Alexandria, newly paved with a hard and durable surface, fitted with tram-rails, lined with poles, illuminated, and built over a modern network of drainage and water supply pipes, affected the city's evolving politics and social life.
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Exploring Bodies in Time and Space
TL;DR: In this paper, a plenitude of theoretical approaches and media are deployed to investigate assumptions and pose problems, to creatively deconstruct and reconstruct the terms through which experience is rendered meaningful, pleasurable, and functional.
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A Superficial Evocation of Our Times
TL;DR: In this article, the authors suggest that proof of the dynamic change that increasingly characterizes contemporary times is to be seen, like agates in a wash, right on the ground before us.
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The Emergence of a Visual Language for Geological Science 1760—1840:
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Luxury, Morality, and Social Change: Why There Was No Middle‐Class Consciousness in Prerevolutionary France*
TL;DR: The question of whether there was a rising middle class in eighteenth-century France, and did it contribute decisively to the French Revolution, has been studied extensively in the past two decades as mentioned in this paper.
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Graphic understanding: instruments and interpretation in Robert Hooke's Micrographia.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors answer a single question: what was Robert Hooke, the Royal Society's curator of experiments, doing in his well-known 1665 work, Micrographia, which explicated the interpretive and political foundations for a community of optical instrument users coextensive with the struggling Royal Society.