Edinburgh University Press
The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism and Technology
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About this book
Though modernism’s emergence in an environment of techno-cultural acceleration has long been recognized, recent scholarship has deepened and challenged our understanding of the connections between twentieth-century cultural production and its technological interlocutors. In twenty-eight chapters by leading academics, The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism and Technology re-examines the machines and media that functioned as modernism’s contexts and competitors. Grounded in an interdisciplinary approach informed by the theoretical and socio-historical frames of current teaching and research on modernism and technology, this research volume makes a crucial and timely intervention in the field of modernist studies. The scholarly contributions on machines that govern transport, production, and public utilities, on media and communication technologies, on the intersections of technology with the human body, and on the technological systems of the early twentieth century capture the contemporary state of modernist technology studies and chart the future directions of this vibrant area.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction: Modernist Technology Studies
1 - Part I Machines
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1 Electricity: Technologies and Aesthetics
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2 Clocks: Modernist Heterochrony and the Contemporary Big Clock
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3 Print: Anaïs Nin’s Embodied Encounters with Print Technology
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4 Subways: Underground Networks Through Modernist Poetry and Prose
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5 Automobiles: The Modernist Gaze and Speed’s Visual Limit-field
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6 Aeroplanes: Rethinking Aeriality in a Long 1930s
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7 Robots: Gendered Machines and Anxious Technophilia
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8 Materials: Glass, Iron and Ghostly Fabric
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9 Advertising: Magazine Ads and the Creation of Femininity in Early Twentieth-century America
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10 Photography: Gertrude Käsebier and the Maternal Line of Sight
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11 X-rays: Technological Revelation and its Cultural Receptions
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12 Cinema: Notes on Germaine Dulac’s ‘Integral Cinema’, Form and Spirit
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13 Radio: Blindness, Disability and Technology
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14 Music: Modernist Remediation and Technologies of Listening
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15 Performance: Machine Dances and the Avant-garde’s Technological Imaginary
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16 Amplification: At Home with Marlene Dietrich Overseas
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17 Sex: Hypnosis, Hormones, Birth Control and the Modernist Body
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18 Race: Fordism, Factories and the Mechanical Reproduction of Racial Identity
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19 Technics: Education and Pharmakon in Lawrence, Simondon and Stiegler
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20 Germs: The Shocks, Politics and Aesthetics of Microbial Modernism
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21 Noise: Labour, Industry and Embodiment in Interwar Factory Fiction
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22 Nation: GPO Documentaries and Infrastructures of the Nation-state
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23 Infrastructure: Women Writers Confront Large Technological Systems
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24 Paperwork: Atomic Age Bureaucracy in C. P. Snow’s Strangers and Brothers
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25 Information: Literature and Knowledge in the Age of Bradshaw and Baedeker
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26 Computation: The Work of Calculation Between Human and Mechanism
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27 Networks: Modernism in Circulation, 1920–2020
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28 War: Modernism in Camouflage, Strategic Fantasy and the Technological Sublime
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Notes on Contributors
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Index
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