Dror Wahrman: 2 books
Mr. Collier's Letter Racks
A Tale of Art and Illusion at the Threshold of the Modern Information Age
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
Three hundred years ago, an unprecedented explosion in inexpensive, disposable print--newspapers, pamphlets, informational publications, artistic prints--ushered in a media revolution that forever changed our relationship to information. One unusually perceptive man, an obscure Dutch/British still...
Invisible Hands
Self-Organization and the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
Why is the world orderly, and how does this order come to be? Human beings inhabit a multitude of apparently ordered systems—natural, social, political, economic, cognitive, and others—whose origins and purposes are often obscure. In the eighteenth century, older certainties about such orders,...