Book ID: CBB015160951

The Demonstration Society (2021)

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Rosental, Claude (Author)
Porter, Catherine (Translator)


Porter, Catherine
MIT Press


Publication Date: 2021
Physical Details: 288
Language: English

YouTube demos of makeup products by famous influencers, demonstrations of strength during street protests, demonstrations of military might in North Korea: public demonstrations are omnipresent in social life. Yet they are often perceived as isolated events, unworthy of systematic examination. In The Demonstration Society, Claude Rosental explores the underlying dynamics of what he calls a “demonstration society.” He shows how, both in today's world and historically, public demonstrations constitute not only tools to prove, persuade, and promote, but fundamental forms of interaction and exchange, and, in some cases, attempts to lead the world. Rosental compares demos with other forms of public demonstrations, drawing out both their peculiarities and common features. He analyzes the processes through which demonstrations are conceived and carried out, as well as the skills of their producers. He also compares contemporary demos with historical demonstrations including theaters of machines in the Renaissance, public demonstrations of natural philosophy in the seventeenth century, and demonstrations of the magic lantern in the nineteenth century. Above and beyond the entertainment they sometimes provide, demonstrations are experienced as intense moments that broadly involve alliances, material and symbolic goods, and, more generally, the future of individuals and collectives. Rosental elucidates the many ways in which we live today, as in the past, in a society of demonstration.

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Authors & Contributors
Amy Lynn Coale
Rebecca Machin
Samuel Shaw
Helena Gonçalves
Dulce da Rocha Gonçalves
Simão Mateus
Concepts
Public understanding of science
Popularization
Science and entertainment; science and spectacle
Science and culture
Public demonstration
Visual representation; visual communication
Time Periods
Modern
19th century
Early modern
20th century
18th century
Renaissance
Places
Berlin (Germany)
Great Britain
United Kingdom
Los Angeles (California)
Netherlands
Germany
Institutions
Leeds Museums and Galleries
Griffith Observatory
Marine Studios
Universidade do Porto
Royal Society
Zoological Society of London
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