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The rise and fall of imperial chemical industries = synthetics, sensism and the environment /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The rise and fall of imperial chemical industries/ by Esther Leslie.
Reminder of title:	synthetics, sensism and the environment /
Author:	Leslie, Esther.
Published:	Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland : : 2023.,
Description:	x, 164 p. :ill., digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Chemical industry - History. - Great Britain -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37432-6
ISBN:	9783031374326

The rise and fall of imperial chemical industries = synthetics, sensism and the environment /
Leslie, Esther.

The rise and fall of imperial chemical industriessynthetics, sensism and the environment /[electronic resource] :by Esther Leslie. - Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2023. - x, 164 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.

1. Synthetic Beginnings -- 2. The Highpoints and the Low Ones: In, Over, Around and Under the Chemical Factory -- 3. ICI and the Senses -- 4.History as Synthesis.

This book provides a history of Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), a large Britain- based chemical firm which was a major industrial player in the twentieth century. Once a model for Britain's industrial reach and dominance, ICI collapsed in the mid-2000s, with some still profitable elements sold off to other chemical firms. The book focuses on the firm's origin site in the Northeast of England, around Middlesbrough, engaging the remnants of the company magazine, oral histories and social media posts, and material artifacts in the world, to relate a history of the social, environmental, cultural and imaginative and bodily impact of the presence (and then absence) of ICI. This unique work is open to coincidence and speculation, drawing on science fictional and urban myth narratives which emanate from the area. Through the lens of global narratives of industrial and philosophical innovation, it inquires into uncommon and diverse themes, such as the manufacture of Quorn, the place of photographic mediation of the factory, and industrial disease. Setting out from a context of heavy industry and material processing, the book seeks to stimulate poetic and creative thinking around the ways in which people's lives were enmeshed with synthetic chemicals and the dreams that seemed to ooze and seep from them as by-products. Esther Leslie is Professor of Political Aesthetics at Birkbeck, University of London in the UK, where she is Co-director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and accreddited as a Senior Fellow of the HEA.

ISBN: 9783031374326

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-37432-6doiSubjects--Corporate Names:

1429288
Imperial Chemical Industries, ltd.
Subjects--Topical Terms:

1429289
Chemical industry
--History.--Great Britain

LC Class. No.: HD9652.9.I5 / L47 2023

Dewey Class. No.: 331.04600941

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