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Author Friedberg, Anne.

Title The virtual window : from Alberti to Microsoft / Anne Friedberg
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2006]
©2006

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Description xii, 357 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Introduction : the virtual window -- 1. The window -- Lens I : descartes's window -- 2. The frame -- Lens II : Heidegger's frame -- 3. The "age of windows" -- Lens III : Bergson's virtual -- 4. The screen -- Lens IV : Virilio's screen -- 5. The multiple -- Conclusion : the future of windows : smart glass, streaming portals, and screenless images
Summary "In this wide-ranging book, Friedberg considers such topics as the framed view of the camera obscura, Le Corbusier's mandates for the architectural window, Eisenstein's opinions on the shape of the movie screen, and the multiple images and nested windows commonly displayed on screens today. The Virtual Window proposes a new logic of visuality, framed and virtual: an architecture not only of space but of time."--BOOK JACKET
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-348) and index
Subject Image (Philosophy) -- History.
Mass media -- Philosophy -- History.
LC no. 2006044876
ISBN 0262062526 hardcover alkaline paper
9780262062527 hardcover alkaline paper