Colour Chart
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This chapter dwells on the colour chart as technology of organization. Following Benjamin’s distinction between medium of perception and technical apparatus, the colour chart is discussed as a materialization of colour’s organizational forces. For one, the colour chart disciplines the unruly, unstable, and treacherous realm of colour into orderly, manageable, and commercially exploitable colours. Then, by way of manifold forms of charts and grids, colour becomes a technology of organizing the social. However, colour is a perennial force of disorganization. The history of the colour chart is thus also one of grappling with colour’s volatility and unruliness.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | The Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology, and Organization Studies |
Editors | Timon Beyes, Claus Pias, Robin Holt |
Number of pages | 11 |
Place of Publication | Oxford |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Publication date | 12.12.2019 |
Pages | 125-135 |
ISBN (print) | 978–0–19–880991–3 |
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Publication status | Published - 12.12.2019 |
- Digital media
- Media and communication studies