World Projects(1st Edition) Global Information before World War I (Electronic Mediations) by Markus Krajewski, CharlesMarcrumIi Paperback, 328 Pages, Published 2015 by Univ Of Minnesota Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-8351-2, ISBN: 0-8166-8351-4
"Markus Krajewski is emerging as a leading scholar in the field of media archaeology, which seeks to trace cultural history through the media networks that enable and structure it. In World Projects he opens a new portal into the history of globalization by examining several large-scale projects that, at the beginning of the twentieth century, shared a grand yet unachievable goal: bringing order to the world. Drawing from a broad array o ..."
"We live in a world organized around the container. Standardized twenty- and forty-foot shipping containers carry material goods across oceans and over land; provide shelter, office space, and storage capacity; inspire films, novels, metaphors, and paradigms. Today, TEU (Twenty Foot Equivalent Unit, the official measurement for shipping containers) has become something like ..."
Electronic Mediations Ser. World Projects : Global Information Before World War I by Markus Krajewski, CharlesMarcrumIi Hardcover, 328 Pages, Published 2014 by University Of Minnesota Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-9593-5, ISBN: 0-8166-9593-8
"Markus Krajewski is emerging as a leading scholar in the field of media archaeology, which seeks to trace cultural history through the media networks that enable and structure it. In "World Projects" he opens a new portal into the history of globalization by examining several large-scale projects that, at the beginning of the twentieth century, shared a grand yet unachievable goal: bringing order to the world.Drawing from a broad array ..."