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SUMMARY:The impact of machines - Henry K. Miller (Slade School of Fine Art
 \, UCL)
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CONTACT:Richard Staley
DESCRIPTION:More than thirty years before the 'Two Cultures' debate came i
 nto the national consciousness\, I.A. Richards\, the leading light of the 
 nascent English school at Cambridge\, was writing of 'the transference fro
 m the Magical View of the world to the scientific'\, combined with 'the mo
 re sinister potentialities of the cinema and the loud-speaker' as grave ch
 allenges to his young discipline. One of Richards's best students\, Humphr
 ey Jennings\, became a film-maker and author of the compendium 'Pandaemoni
 um: The Coming of the Machine as Seen by Contemporary Observers'\, which c
 harted a version of this 'central dominant change' in worldviews. This tal
 k explores an unofficial but significant interest in the history of scienc
 e within 'Cambridge English' which stood in partial opposition to the latt
 erly dominant F.R. Leavis.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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