Reading Machines in the Modernist Transatlantic : : Avant-Gardes, Technology and the Everyday / / Eric White.

A revisionist account of technology’s role in the aesthetics, spaces and politics of transatlantic avant-gardesExplores of a range of key avant-garde formations in the modernist transatlantic period, from the Italian futurists and English Vorticists to the Dada-surrealist and post-Harlem Renaissance...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2020
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 28 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. Dazzling Technologies: Avant-Gardes and Sensory Augmentation in the First World War
  • 2. Re-Reading the Machine Age: The ‘Audacious Modernity’ of the Techno-Bathetic Avant-Gardes
  • 3. Excavating the ‘Readies’: The Revolution of the Word, Revised
  • 4. Ghosts in the Machine Age: Rose and Bob Brown’s Reading Machines and the Socio-Technics of Social Change
  • 5. ‘Our Technology Was Vernacular’: Radical Technicities in African American Experimental Writing
  • 6. Afterword: The Robot Does (Not) Exist
  • Index