Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures viii
4. Acknowledgements xi
5. Introduction: Modernist Technology Studies 1
6. Part I Machines
7. 1 Electricity: Technologies and Aesthetics 23
8. 2 Clocks: Modernist Heterochrony and the Contemporary Big Clock 36
9. 3 Print: Anaïs Nin’s Embodied Encounters with Print Technology 51
10. 4 Subways: Underground Networks Through Modernist Poetry and Prose 63
11. 5 Automobiles: The Modernist Gaze and Speed’s Visual Limit-field 78
12. 6 Aeroplanes: Rethinking Aeriality in a Long 1930s 91
13. 7 Robots: Gendered Machines and Anxious Technophilia 105
14. Part II Media
15. 8 Materials: Glass, Iron and Ghostly Fabric 125
16. 9 Advertising: Magazine Ads and the Creation of Femininity in Early Twentieth-century America 138
17. 10 Photography: Gertrude Käsebier and the Maternal Line of Sight 155
18. 11 X-rays: Technological Revelation and its Cultural Receptions 175
19. 12 Cinema: Notes on Germaine Dulac’s ‘Integral Cinema’, Form and Spirit 192
20. 13 Radio: Blindness, Disability and Technology 212
21. 14 Music: Modernist Remediation and Technologies of Listening 226
22. 15 Performance: Machine Dances and the Avant-garde’s Technological Imaginary 243
23. 16 Amplification: At Home with Marlene Dietrich Overseas 257
24. Part III Bodies
25. 17 Sex: Hypnosis, Hormones, Birth Control and the Modernist Body 273
26. 18 Race: Fordism, Factories and the Mechanical Reproduction of Racial Identity 286
27. 19 Technics: Education and Pharmakon in Lawrence, Simondon and Stiegler 300
28. 20 Germs: The Shocks, Politics and Aesthetics of Microbial Modernism 314
29. 21 Noise: Labour, Industry and Embodiment in Interwar Factory Fiction 328
30. Part IV Systems
31. 22 Nation: GPO Documentaries and Infrastructures of the Nation-state 345
32. 23 Infrastructure: Women Writers Confront Large Technological Systems 362
33. 24 Paperwork: Atomic Age Bureaucracy in C. P. Snow’s Strangers and Brothers 376
34. 25 Information: Literature and Knowledge in the Age of Bradshaw and Baedeker 390
35. 26 Computation: The Work of Calculation Between Human and Mechanism 404
36. 27 Networks: Modernism in Circulation, 1920–2020 417
37. 28 War: Modernism in Camouflage, Strategic Fantasy and the Technological Sublime 432
38. Notes on Contributors 447
39. Index 451