By Esther Leslie
For the first actual time, Liquid Crystals tells the background of this anomalous and little understood section of topic relating to a ‘liquid crystal’ epoch, spanning from 1820 to this present day, detailing the main interminglings of the liquid and crystalline positioned in politics, philosophy and artwork in this time. There are insightful and memorable readings of cultural types from Romantic panorama portray to snow globes, from mountain movies to Hollywood eco-disaster video clips, from touchscreen units to DNA, chilly wars and political thaws, media meltdowns and ice within the desolate tract. Expertly written in an obtainable kind, Liquid Crystals recounts the unheralded yet highly major emergence and purposes of this specific matter.
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