Skip Nav Destination
Article navigation
Spring 2011
April 01 2011
The Prophet and the Pendulum: Sensational Science and Audiovisual Phantasmagoria around 1848
John Tresch
John Tresch
John Tresch teaches history and sociology of science at the University of Pennsylvania, following graduate study in Cambridge, UK, and the École Normale Supérieure (ENS), Paris. His book The Romantic Machine: Utopian Science and Technology after Napoleon is forthcoming from University of Chicago Press.
Search for other works by this author on:
John Tresch
John Tresch teaches history and sociology of science at the University of Pennsylvania, following graduate study in Cambridge, UK, and the École Normale Supérieure (ENS), Paris. His book The Romantic Machine: Utopian Science and Technology after Napoleon is forthcoming from University of Chicago Press.
Online Issn: 1536-0105
Print Issn: 1526-3819
© 2011 by Grey Room, Inc. and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
2011
Grey Room (2011) (43): 16–41.
Citation
John Tresch; The Prophet and the Pendulum: Sensational Science and Audiovisual Phantasmagoria around 1848. Grey Room 2011; (43): 16–41. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/GREY_a_00030
Download citation file:
Sign in
Don't already have an account? Register
Client Account
You could not be signed in. Please check your email address / username and password and try again.
Sign in via your Institution
Sign in via your InstitutionEmail alerts
53
Views
0
Citations
Advertisement
Cited By
Related Articles
The “Botafumeiro” VR: Virtual Reality in the Liturgy of the Middle Ages
Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments (April,2003)
The Phantasmagoric Dispositif : An Assembly of Bodies and Images in Real Time and Space
Grey Room (January,2016)
Reinforcement Learning State Estimator
Neural Comput (March,2007)
The Sensation and the Stimulus: Psychophysics and the Prehistory of the Marburg School
Perspectives on Science (May,2017)
Related Book Chapters
Remember the Phantasmagoria!
MediaArtHistories
Sensation
Networked Affect
“Too Sensational”
Too Sensational: On the Choice of Exchange Rate Regimes
Schopenhauer's Pendulum: Is Happiness Possible?
Meaning in Life: The Harmony of Nature and Spirit