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The Technological Fact of Counterfactuals

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dc.creatorKirkwood, Jeffrey West
dc.date.accessioned2022-06-21T11:43:35Z
dc.date.available2022-06-21T11:43:35Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractOptical media were instrumental in transforming the conception of facts, objectivity, and the »real.« This paper considers their role in structuring understandings of counterfactuals and states that could not be real. By returning to Ernst Mach’s photographic ballistics experiments, writing on thought experiments (a term he coined), and his dispute with Max Planck about the nature of the Weltbild, the article shows that, despite his legacy as a positivist, Mach’s epistemology of mechanical images opened a legitimate space of indeterminacy, contingency, and counterfactuality.en
dc.identifier.doi10.28937/ZMK-9-1
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/18689
dc.identifier.urihttps://meiner.de/isbn/2366767000091
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/19831
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherFelix Meiner
dc.publisher.placeHamburg
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:1869-1366
dc.relation.ispartofseriesZMK Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
dc.subjectoptical mediaen
dc.subjectobjectivityen
dc.subjectWeltbilden
dc.subjectepistemologyen
dc.subjectmechanical imagesen
dc.subject.ddcddc:700
dc.subject.ddcddc:100
dc.titleThe Technological Fact of Counterfactualsde
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dspace.entity.typeArticleen
local.coverpage2022-06-21T13:58:42
local.source.epage32
local.source.issue1
local.source.issueTitleMediocene
local.source.spage13
local.source.volume9

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