{"product_id":"9781350581791","title":"Visions of Scale Contemporary Art and the Technoscientific Universe","description":"\u003ch3\u003eBiotechne: Interthinking Art, Science and Design\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eVisions of Scale\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eContemporary Art and the Technoscientific Universe\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eJoshua DiCaglio | Charissa N. Terranova | Jye O’Sullivan | Meredith Tromble | Meredith Tromble\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eArt \/ General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn our hyper-connected world, where huge distances are traversed in a virtual instant, industries are founded on molecular and planetary interventions, and people carry supercomputers in their pockets, how do we relate to the scale of change around us? Can 'scale' itself remake our world-view?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eThe essays in this book focus on scale as both theoretical concept and artistic tool, exploring how technoscientific ways of viewing the world are critiqued, extended, and interpreted through art practice. Contemporary artists and scholars engage scale not only as a source of awe, but as an essential component in approaching a host of issues including ecological crisis, global pandemics, inequities in globalized economic and sociopolitical systems, and upheavals brought by computing and communication technologies. V\u003ci\u003eisions of Scale\u003c\/i\u003e explores the scalar aspects of innovative ideas including AI hypnosis, interspecies relations, permaculture and education, race and infrastructure, and offers a fresh take on perennial concerns such as attention and mortality, through a wide range of art and design practices from AI and architecture to performance, sculpture, and video.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eVisions of Scale\u003c\/i\u003e offers a toolkit for critically analyzing and working with scale to address important socio-political issues in and through contemporary art. It provides a model for applying scale as an epistemological tool and as a means of visioning new realities, introducing a vital new approach for addressing interconnected issues within the critical humanities in a time of planetary uncertainty, reconsidering our relationships with other beings and systems, both proximate and distant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoshua DiCaglio \u003c\/b\u003eis Associate Professor of English at Texas A\u0026amp;M University, USA. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eScale Theory: A Nondisciplinary Inquiry\u003c\/i\u003e (2021)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJye O'Sullivan \u003c\/b\u003eis is a Lecturer in Visual Culture at NCAD, Dublin, Ireland. Their work addresses cybernetics, decoloniality and questions of the post-natural. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMeredith Tromble\u003c\/b\u003e is an intermedia artist and writer. With Charissa Terranova, she is co-editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Routledge Companion to Biology in Art and Architecture\u003c\/i\u003e (2017), and Bloomsbury series Biotechne: Interthinking Art, Science and Design.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e10 December 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Visual Arts\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781350581791\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e272\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e16.0\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51197864509580,"sku":"9781350581791","price":117.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781350581791","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}