Anders Ekström
Biographic Data
| ID | 3583984 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anders Ekström |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anders |
| FAMILY NAME | Ekström |
| SIGNATURE | EKSTRÖM A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Uppsala University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Times of History, Times of Nature: Temporalization and the Limits of Modern Knowledge
Remediation, Time and Disaster
This paper explores the deep historical contexts for imagining natural disasters. By focusing on a foundational event in the Western disaster imaginary - the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79 - and its remediation across centuries, the paper suggests that the real-time aesthetic of the mediation of extreme nature events that now abounds in contemporary culture is profoundly embedded in processes of historical intermediality. The term remediation is u…
Introduction: Cultures of Disaster
No abstract available
Kunskapspolitik för ett hållbart samhälle
The article consists of a conversation about a book entitled Alltings mått: Humanistisk kunskap i framtidens samhälle (title in translation: The Measure of All Things: Humanities-Based Knowledge in the Future Society), which was published in the fall of 2012. The book critically discusses how contemporary research and higher education policies in Sweden and elsewhere have affected the development of the humanities and its role in society, arguing…
I mellanrummen: Tvärgående kulturforskning – en inledning
This introduction outlines some of the multi- and/or transdisciplinary contexts for cultural research after the cultural turn in the 1980s and 1990s. It also briefly describes the rationale behind the open call for contributions to this thematic issue of the journal, aiming for an overview of ongoing activities within the field of cultural research in Sweden
Exhibiting disasters: Mediation, historicity and spectatorship
The main purpose of this article is to draw attention to a long-standing history of exhibiting disasters to distant audiences. In particular, the article explores the transregional imaginaries and cross-temporal connections that emerge from the history of what may be labelled the disaster display or disaster show. This refers to a particular genre of multimedia re-enactments of extreme events that developed in the context of temporary exhibitions…
Seeing From Above: A Particular History of the General Observer
Showing at one view’: Ferdinand Boberg’s ‘statistical machinery’ and the visionary pedagogy of early twentieth‐century statistical display
This article highlights the educational and intermedial discourses that developed around the representation of statistics in museums and temporary exhibitions in the early twentieth century. It is especially concerned with pictorial representations of statistics and the visual realism that were attributed to the statistical media by educational reformers. The article also aims to discuss how experimentation with statistical displays around the tu…
Den falska återkomsten: Om gammal och ny kulturhistoria
In the 1980s and 1990s, theoretical developments in the human and social sciences were influenced by a much debated "cultural turn". One outcome of this in historical research was a renewed interest in the concept of "cultural history". In an anthology published in 1989 by the American historian Lynn Hunt, "the new cultural history" was launched as a critique of some of the basic conceptions of social history and the Annales school. The main purp…
Genom två museer
This essay discusses, in a tentative way, the intertwined production of classifications and object-lessons in the history of museums. The essay is especially focused on two museums. The first example is Linnaeus' Hammarby, a museum located at a small estate outside the city of Uppsala that was bought by Carl Linnaeus in 1758. The second museum discussed in the paper is a collection of weapons used in connection with acts of suicide in Sweden in t…
Ferdinand Boberg och statistikmaskineriet. Om statistik som medium, attraktion och utställning, ca 1800-1930
Different types of statistical representations were among the most prolific visual media in late nineteenth century museums and temporary exhibitions. From the 1890s to the 1930s, several ”social” or ”statistical museums” were founded in Europe and North America, the most famously of which were established by the sociologist Patric Geddes in Glasgow, and by the philosopher Otto Neurath in Vienna. The first part of this paper gives a survey of the…
Museipestens nya skepnad
När man for omkring hundra år sedan allt oftare talade om en speciell «museivetenskap» i Sverige och andra europeiska länder, var det ett tecken pa att museet som institution hade tilldelats en central samhällelig betydelse. Det indikerade om inte annat sjalva anvandningen av ordet vetenskap. En doldis i svenskt sekelskifte, Eugene Fahlstedt, kanske mest omskriven för att han stod ut med en livslang vanskap med August Strindberg, förklarade i en …
Seeing From Above: A Particular History of the General Observer
Remediation, Time and Disaster
This paper explores the deep historical contexts for imagining natural disasters. By focusing on a foundational event in the Western disaster imaginary - the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79 - and its remediation across centuries, the paper suggests that the real-time aesthetic of the mediation of extreme nature events that now abounds in contemporary culture is profoundly embedded in processes of historical intermediality. The term remediation is u…
Exhibiting disasters: Mediation, historicity and spectatorship
The main purpose of this article is to draw attention to a long-standing history of exhibiting disasters to distant audiences. In particular, the article explores the transregional imaginaries and cross-temporal connections that emerge from the history of what may be labelled the disaster display or disaster show. This refers to a particular genre of multimedia re-enactments of extreme events that developed in the context of temporary exhibitions…
Introduction: Cultures of Disaster
No abstract available
Showing at one view’: Ferdinand Boberg’s ‘statistical machinery’ and the visionary pedagogy of early twentieth‐century statistical display
This article highlights the educational and intermedial discourses that developed around the representation of statistics in museums and temporary exhibitions in the early twentieth century. It is especially concerned with pictorial representations of statistics and the visual realism that were attributed to the statistical media by educational reformers. The article also aims to discuss how experimentation with statistical displays around the tu…
Ferdinand Boberg och statistikmaskineriet. Om statistik som medium, attraktion och utställning, ca 1800-1930
Different types of statistical representations were among the most prolific visual media in late nineteenth century museums and temporary exhibitions. From the 1890s to the 1930s, several ”social” or ”statistical museums” were founded in Europe and North America, the most famously of which were established by the sociologist Patric Geddes in Glasgow, and by the philosopher Otto Neurath in Vienna. The first part of this paper gives a survey of the…
Museipestens nya skepnad
När man for omkring hundra år sedan allt oftare talade om en speciell «museivetenskap» i Sverige och andra europeiska länder, var det ett tecken pa att museet som institution hade tilldelats en central samhällelig betydelse. Det indikerade om inte annat sjalva anvandningen av ordet vetenskap. En doldis i svenskt sekelskifte, Eugene Fahlstedt, kanske mest omskriven för att han stod ut med en livslang vanskap med August Strindberg, förklarade i en …
Genom två museer
This essay discusses, in a tentative way, the intertwined production of classifications and object-lessons in the history of museums. The essay is especially focused on two museums. The first example is Linnaeus' Hammarby, a museum located at a small estate outside the city of Uppsala that was bought by Carl Linnaeus in 1758. The second museum discussed in the paper is a collection of weapons used in connection with acts of suicide in Sweden in t…
Den falska återkomsten: Om gammal och ny kulturhistoria
In the 1980s and 1990s, theoretical developments in the human and social sciences were influenced by a much debated "cultural turn". One outcome of this in historical research was a renewed interest in the concept of "cultural history". In an anthology published in 1989 by the American historian Lynn Hunt, "the new cultural history" was launched as a critique of some of the basic conceptions of social history and the Annales school. The main purp…
Showing at one view’: Ferdinand Boberg’s ‘statistical machinery’ and the visionary pedagogy of early twentieth‐century statistical display
This article highlights the educational and intermedial discourses that developed around the representation of statistics in museums and temporary exhibitions in the early twentieth century. It is especially concerned with pictorial representations of statistics and the visual realism that were attributed to the statistical media by educational reformers. The article also aims to discuss how experimentation with statistical displays around the tu…
Seeing From Above: A Particular History of the General Observer
Exhibiting disasters: Mediation, historicity and spectatorship
The main purpose of this article is to draw attention to a long-standing history of exhibiting disasters to distant audiences. In particular, the article explores the transregional imaginaries and cross-temporal connections that emerge from the history of what may be labelled the disaster display or disaster show. This refers to a particular genre of multimedia re-enactments of extreme events that developed in the context of temporary exhibitions…
Kunskapspolitik för ett hållbart samhälle
The article consists of a conversation about a book entitled Alltings mått: Humanistisk kunskap i framtidens samhälle (title in translation: The Measure of All Things: Humanities-Based Knowledge in the Future Society), which was published in the fall of 2012. The book critically discusses how contemporary research and higher education policies in Sweden and elsewhere have affected the development of the humanities and its role in society, arguing…
I mellanrummen: Tvärgående kulturforskning – en inledning
This introduction outlines some of the multi- and/or transdisciplinary contexts for cultural research after the cultural turn in the 1980s and 1990s. It also briefly describes the rationale behind the open call for contributions to this thematic issue of the journal, aiming for an overview of ongoing activities within the field of cultural research in Sweden
Introduction: Cultures of Disaster
No abstract available
Remediation, Time and Disaster
This paper explores the deep historical contexts for imagining natural disasters. By focusing on a foundational event in the Western disaster imaginary - the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79 - and its remediation across centuries, the paper suggests that the real-time aesthetic of the mediation of extreme nature events that now abounds in contemporary culture is profoundly embedded in processes of historical intermediality. The term remediation is u…
Times of History, Times of Nature: Temporalization and the Limits of Modern Knowledge
Art (7 works) · History (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Exhibition (4 works) · History (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works)