Visual Representations as Environing Technologies: Anticipating the Øresund Fixed Link in Danish and Swedish Printed Media (1930-1999)

This article shows that visual representations are valuable sources for investigating the cultural and social history of the humankind-nature relationship. It does so by considering visual representations of future acts of environing as technologies that, connoting the making of the environment, dis...

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Autor principal: Francesco ZAVATTI
Formato: Artículo
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Diacronie 2022-12-01
Colección:Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea
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Acceso en línea:http://www.studistorici.com/2022/12/29/zavatti_numero_52/
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description This article shows that visual representations are valuable sources for investigating the cultural and social history of the humankind-nature relationship. It does so by considering visual representations of future acts of environing as technologies that, connoting the making of the environment, disclose societal sensibilities and actors’ agendas regarding technology, the environment and nature. By analysing a series of visual representations of one yet-unrealised mobility infrastructure published in the Danish and Swedish printed media from 1930 to 1999, the article shows that technological utopias and warnings over the consequences of environing competed to connote visually the act of environing throughout the last century.
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Visual Representations as Environing Technologies: Anticipating the Øresund Fixed Link in Danish and Swedish Printed Media (1930-1999)
Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea
visual representations
environing
technology
environment
nature
title Visual Representations as Environing Technologies: Anticipating the Øresund Fixed Link in Danish and Swedish Printed Media (1930-1999)
title_full Visual Representations as Environing Technologies: Anticipating the Øresund Fixed Link in Danish and Swedish Printed Media (1930-1999)
title_fullStr Visual Representations as Environing Technologies: Anticipating the Øresund Fixed Link in Danish and Swedish Printed Media (1930-1999)
title_full_unstemmed Visual Representations as Environing Technologies: Anticipating the Øresund Fixed Link in Danish and Swedish Printed Media (1930-1999)
title_short Visual Representations as Environing Technologies: Anticipating the Øresund Fixed Link in Danish and Swedish Printed Media (1930-1999)
title_sort visual representations as environing technologies anticipating the oresund fixed link in danish and swedish printed media 1930 1999
topic visual representations
environing
technology
environment
nature
url http://www.studistorici.com/2022/12/29/zavatti_numero_52/
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