The Space Oracle Contributor(s): Hollings, Ken (Author) |
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ISBN: 1907222537 ISBN-13: 9781907222535 Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Binding Type: Paperback Published: January 2019 |
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BISAC Categories: - Science | Astronomy - Science | History - Science | Cosmology |
Age Level: 18-UP |
Grade Level: 13-UP |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 4.3" W x 7" L (0.45 lbs) 176 pages |
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Publisher Description: A radical retelling of our relationship with the cosmos, reinventing the history of astronomy as a new form of astrological calendar. Astronomy is another form of cinema. Time is fragmented and extended. Matter becomes light in motion. The camera remains fixed, looking outwards into the darkness, while the earth moves beneath our feet. A carefully constructed text in sixty numbered sections, The Space Oracle reinvents the history of astronomy as a new form of astrological calendar. This radical retelling of our relationship with the cosmos reaches back to places and times when astronomers were treated as artists or priests, to when popes took part in astral rites and the common people feared eclipses and comets as portents of disaster. Panoramic and encyclopedic in its scope, The Space Oracle brings astronauts and spies, engineers and soldiers, goddesses and satellites into alignment with speculative insights and everyday observations. The universe, Hollings argues, is a work in progress--enjoy it.
"Ken Hollings is a master at connecting the dots between avant-garde art history, outr culture and weird science." |
Contributor Bio(s): Hollings, Ken: - Ken Hollings is a writer, broadcaster, and cultural theorist based in London and the author of Welcome to Mars and The Bright Labyrinth (both published by Strange Attractor Press). He teaches at the Royal College of Art. |
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