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Rare earth / curated by Boris Ondreička, Nadim Samman

Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: BuchBookLanguage: English Publisher: Vienna : Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, [2015]Publisher: Berlin : Sternberg Press, [2015]Description: 179 Seiten, 64 ungezählte Seiten ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9783956791444
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 704.9495464107443613 22/ger
  • 700
RVK: RVK: LH 49600 | LH 65880Summary: Rare Earth is an attempt to define the spirit of an age. Exploring how todays myths, identities, and cosmologies relate to current advances in technologythrough reference to the material basis to our most developed weapons and tools; a class of seventeen rare earth elements from the periodic tableRare Earth challenges the rhetoric of immateriality associated with our hypermodern condition.<br>Rare earth elements are the game-changing foundation of our most powerful innovations, are fundamental to contemporary accoutrements such as mobile phones, iPods and iPads, liquid crystal displays, LEDs, light bulbs, CDs and DVDs. Often described as conflict materials due to the limited number of easily accessible mines, they are also integral to weapon systems used for cyber-warfare, medical technologies (including MRI scanning equipment), hybrid vehicles, wind turbines, and other green energy applications. Consequently, rare earth elements play an increasing role in global affairs and power inventions that facilitate our changing self-imagegiving birth to todays emergent myths and identities.<br>Rare Earth grounds our strange, seemingly weightless cultural moment. While we may design our technologies, these tools and weapons shape us in turn. It may seem that we dream the contemporary into existence, but perhaps rare earth elements are dreaming through us. After the Stone Age, the Bronze Age and the Iron Age, this is the age of Rare Earth.Call number: Grundsignatur: 2019 A 2019PPN: PPN: 848804384
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