Batteries of Life: On the History of Things and Their Perception in Modernity by Christoph Asendorf, Don Reneau

Batteries of Life: On the History of Things and Their Perception in Modernity

Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism #4

Christoph Asendorf, Don Reneau

248 pages • first pub 1984 (editions)

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Reflecting on the technological age, poet Rainer Maria Rilke wrote of the intense emotions with which people can endow manufactured objects. We seem to "charge" the world of things as we would a battery. Now German art historian Christoph Asendorf...

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