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Lightshows and the cultural politics of light: mid-century cosmologies
The practices of multimedia lightshows developed by the British counterculture in London during the 1960s are related to aesthetic practices involving the use and manipulation of light in Kinetic and Op art. Both reflect a new sense of matter and energy that emerged from the adoption of post-Newtonian understandings of nature and the cosmos in the mid-twentieth century. The stereotypical cosmic mysticism with which the counterculture is associated was more techno-scientific that it is painted. The London underground press is a good source with which to elaborate this more nuanced reading. The counterculture’s cosmic speculation was as much earnest reflection on new vistas of nature and the universe as glib reflections on a Technicolor acid trip.
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The SixtiesISSN
1754-1328Publisher
Taylor & FrancisExternal DOI
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1Volume
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45-64Department affiliated with
- Geography Publications
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online first edition 10 April 2013Full text available
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