ABSTRACT:

This article examines the technical and symbolic perceptions of the street lantern before and during the French Revolution. More broadly, it seeks to understand how new technical objects impact an urban habitat—in particular, the processes of judgment, agreement, familiarization, and social integration involved in the social acceptance of innovations. Tracing these multi-layered processes uncovers a shift in meaning and appropriation of the street lantern in the eighteenth century. This shift helped inventors promote their products, but also subverted their innovation for sinister purposes. The complex history of how the lantern's representations evolved obscures the distinctions between the visual culture of technical inventions represented by trade cards and popular imagery represented by caricatures. The article thus addresses the question of the embeddedness of technologies in cultural discourses, the entwining of narratives with material objects.

摘要：

本文考察了法国大革命之前和期间对路灯的技术和象征意义。更广泛地讲，它试图了解新技术对象如何影响城市居住环境，尤其是在创新的社会接受中所涉及的判断，协议，熟悉和社会融合过程。追溯这些多层过程，揭示了十八世纪路灯的含义和使用方式的转变。这一转变不仅帮助发明人推广了他们的产品，而且还颠覆了他们出于邪恶目的的创新。灯笼代表如何演变的复杂历史掩盖了以贸易卡为代表的技术发明的视觉文化与以漫画为代表的流行图像之间的区别。