| 书目名称 | The Rise and Fall of Imperial Chemical Industries | | 副标题 | Synthetics, Sensism | | 编辑 | Esther Leslie | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Combines labor history, landscape and natural history, literary analysis, urban planning, and textile history.Tells a multifaceted history that continues to have after-effects.Contributes to emerging | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | This book provides a history of Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), a large Britain- based chemical firm which was a major industrial player in the twentieth century. Once a model for Britain’s industrial reach and dominance, ICI collapsed in the mid-2000s, with some still profitable elements sold off to other chemical firms. The book focuses on the firm’s origin site in the Northeast of England, around Middlesbrough, engaging the remnants of the company magazine, oral histories and social media posts, and material artifacts in the world, to relate a history of the social, environmental, cultural and imaginative and bodily impact of the presence (and then absence) of ICI. This unique work is open to coincidence and speculation, drawing on science fictional and urban myth narratives which emanate from the area. Through the lens of global narratives of industrial and philosophical innovation, it inquires into uncommon and diverse themes, such as the manufacture of Quorn, the place of photographic mediation of the factory, and industrial disease. Setting out from a context of heavy industry and material processing, the book seeks to stimulate poetic and creative thinking around the wa | | 出版日期 | Book 2023 | | 关键词 | Industry; Chemistry; Futurism; Aesthetics; Urban planning; Literature; Geography; Imperial Chemical Industr | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37432-6 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-37432-6 | | copyright | The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023 |
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