Edinburgh Companion to Modernism and Technology
1st Edition
Published on 30. September 2022
472 pages
978-1-4744-6055-2 (ISBN)
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The first comprehensive reference book to define and delineate the intersections of modernism and technology.
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Alex Goody | Ian Whittington
The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism and Technology
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09/2022
216th Edition
Edinburgh University Press
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Content
- Intro
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Modernist Technology Studies
- Part I. Machines
- 1. Electricity: Technologies and Aesthetics
- 2. Clocks: Modernist Heterochrony and the Contemporary Big Clock
- 3. Print: Anaïs Nin's Embodied Encounters with Print Technology
- 4. Subways: Underground Networks Through Modernist Poetry and Prose
- 5. Automobiles: The Modernist Gaze and Speed's Visual Limit-field
- 6. Aeroplanes: Rethinking Aeriality in a Long 1930s
- 7. Robots: Gendered Machines and Anxious Technophilia
- Part II. Media
- 8. Materials: Glass, Iron and Ghostly Fabric
- 9. Advertising: Magazine Ads and the Creation of Femininity in Early Twentieth-century America
- 10. Photography: Gertrude Käsebier and the Maternal Line of Sight
- 11. X-rays: Technological Revelation and its Cultural Receptions
- 12. Cinema: Notes on Germaine Dulac's 'Integral Cinema', Form and Spirit
- 13. Radio: Blindness, Disability and Technology
- 14. Music: Modernist Remediation and Technologies of Listening
- 15. Performance: Machine Dances and the Avant-garde's Technological Imaginary
- 16. Amplification: At Home with Marlene Dietrich Overseas
- Part III. Bodies
- 17. Sex: Hypnosis, Hormones, Birth Control and the Modernist Body
- 18. Race: Fordism, Factories and the Mechanical Reproduction of Racial Identity
- 19. Technics: Education and Pharmakon in Lawrence, Simondon and Stieg
- 20. Germs: The Shocks, Politics and Aesthetics of Microbial Modernism
- 21. Noise: Labour, Industry and Embodiment in Interwar Factory Fiction
- Part IV. Systems
- 22. Nation: GPO Documentaries and Infrastructures of the Nation-state
- 23. Infrastructure: Women Writers Confront Large Technological Systems
- 24. Paperwork: Atomic Age Bureaucracy in C. P. Snow's Strangers and Brothers
- 25. Information: Literature and Knowledge in the Age of Bradshaw and Baedeker
- 26. Computation: The Work of Calculation Between Human and Mechanism
- 27. Networks: Modernism in Circulation, 1920-2020
- 28. War: Modernism in Camouflage, Strategic Fantasy and the Technological Sublime
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
