Angels of Efficiency: A Media History of Consulting

ISBN-13: 9780190886370 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 368 str.

Florian Hoof

Recenzje

Charting the reciprocal emergence of corporate consulting and a series of visualization techniques-including graphs, charts, tables, photographs, and motion pictures-between 1880 and 1920, Hoof definitively demonstrates how these visual media were not merely new forms of communication, but new forms of knowledge that actively shaped corporate strategy and practice. Angels of Efficiency provides an insightful portrait of modernity's visual culture of useful images, but it also brilliantly fuses film and media studies with economic history to make a powerful argument for the mutually constitutive relationship between media and discipline.

O autorze

Florian Hoof is Research Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study on the Media Cultures of Computer Simulation, University of Lüneburg.