Robert Michael Brain
Biographic Data
| ID | 286406 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Michael Brain |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Brain |
| SIGNATURE | BRAIN R M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Psychomotor Aesthetics
Self-Projection
ArgumentThis essay considers the metaphors of projection in Hugo Münsterberg's theory of cinema spectatorship. Münsterberg (1863-1916), a German born and educated professor of psychology at Harvard University, turned his attention to cinema only a few years before his untimely death at the age of fifty-three. But he brought to the new medium certain lasting preoccupations. This account begins with the contention that Münsterberg's intervention in…
How Edvard Munch and August Strindberg Contracted Protoplasmania
Late nineteenth-century scientists sought to bring together energy and evolution through the elastic, semi-fluid substance preponderant in the cells of all organisms: protoplasm. For several decades protoplasm functioned as a "boundary-object", supporting a myriad of scientific problems and research constituencies. This essay considers research into protoplasm as the bearer of vibrations thought to store organic memory, including heredity, and se…
The pulse of modernism
The Ontology of the Questionnaire
The Ontology of the Questionnaire
The pulse of modernism
Self-Projection
ArgumentThis essay considers the metaphors of projection in Hugo Münsterberg's theory of cinema spectatorship. Münsterberg (1863-1916), a German born and educated professor of psychology at Harvard University, turned his attention to cinema only a few years before his untimely death at the age of fifty-three. But he brought to the new medium certain lasting preoccupations. This account begins with the contention that Münsterberg's intervention in…
The Ontology of the Questionnaire
The pulse of modernism
How Edvard Munch and August Strindberg Contracted Protoplasmania
Late nineteenth-century scientists sought to bring together energy and evolution through the elastic, semi-fluid substance preponderant in the cells of all organisms: protoplasm. For several decades protoplasm functioned as a "boundary-object", supporting a myriad of scientific problems and research constituencies. This essay considers research into protoplasm as the bearer of vibrations thought to store organic memory, including heredity, and se…
Self-Projection
ArgumentThis essay considers the metaphors of projection in Hugo Münsterberg's theory of cinema spectatorship. Münsterberg (1863-1916), a German born and educated professor of psychology at Harvard University, turned his attention to cinema only a few years before his untimely death at the age of fifty-three. But he brought to the new medium certain lasting preoccupations. This account begins with the contention that Münsterberg's intervention in…
Psychomotor Aesthetics
Philosophy (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Aesthetic Perception and Analysis (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Modernism (music (2 works) · Neurology and Historical Studies (2 works)