Elevator as a mediating technology of organization
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Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology and Organization Studies . ed. / Timon Beyes; Robin Holt; Claus Pias. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. p. 214-224.
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T1 - Elevator as a mediating technology of organization
AU - Bernard, Andreas
PY - 2019/12/12
Y1 - 2019/12/12
N2 - This chapter examines the rise of the elevator from the mid-nineteenth century onwards and its ramifications for the organization, perception, and imagination of multi-storey buildings. The early history of the elevator is of particular interest because it resides, as it were, in the gap between an old and a new organization of space, and registers its very points of transition. To reconstruct the elevator’s medial and organizational power, four main problem areas are identified: ‘breaches’, ‘hierarchies’, ‘controls’, and ‘interiors’. These areas address the specific verticality of the elevator building, the new hierarchical order of the storeys, the development of control elements, and the hermetic space of the elevator cabin.
AB - This chapter examines the rise of the elevator from the mid-nineteenth century onwards and its ramifications for the organization, perception, and imagination of multi-storey buildings. The early history of the elevator is of particular interest because it resides, as it were, in the gap between an old and a new organization of space, and registers its very points of transition. To reconstruct the elevator’s medial and organizational power, four main problem areas are identified: ‘breaches’, ‘hierarchies’, ‘controls’, and ‘interiors’. These areas address the specific verticality of the elevator building, the new hierarchical order of the storeys, the development of control elements, and the hermetic space of the elevator cabin.
KW - Digital media
KW - Media and communication studies
U2 - 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198809913.013.16
DO - 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198809913.013.16
M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies
SN - 9780198809913
SP - 214
EP - 224
BT - Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology and Organization Studies
A2 - Beyes, Timon
A2 - Holt, Robin
A2 - Pias, Claus
PB - Oxford University Press
CY - Oxford
ER -