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Alchemical MercuryA Theory of Ambivalence$
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Alchemical Mercury: A Theory of Ambivalence

Karen Pinkus

Print publication date: 2009

Print ISBN-13: 9780804760324

Published to Stanford Scholarship Online: June 2013

DOI: 10.11126/stanford/9780804760324.001.0001

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Digital Gold

Digital Gold

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(p.158) § 7 Digital Gold
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Alchemical Mercury
Publisher:
Stanford University Press
DOI:10.11126/stanford/9780804760324.003.0011

This chapter begins with a discussion of alchemy and modernism. It then considers artists' engagement with alchemy, and the use of alchemy as a metaphor for digital money and the production of alternative fuels or energy sources.

Keywords:   alchemy, modernism, artists, alternative fuels, energy sources, digital money, metaphor

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