Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Abbreviations and Reference Style xiii
5. Introduction xv
6. 1. James Joyce and the 'Modern': Machines, Media, and the Mimetic 1
7. 2. Art as Vivisection: The Encyclopaedic Mechanics of Menippean Satire 16
8. 3. Electro-Mechanization, Communication, and the Poet as Engineer 30
9. 4. Singing the Electro-Mechano-Chemical Body 50
10. 5. Books, Machines, and Processes of Production and Consumption 62
11. 6. The Machinic Maze of Mimesis: The Labyrinthine Dance of Mind and Machine 73
12. 7. Mimicry, Memory, Mummery, and the Multiplying of Media 87
13. 8. Secularizing the Sacred: The Art of Profane Illumination 103
14. 9. Assembling and Tailoring a Modern Hermetic Techno-Cultural Allegory 117
15. 10. The Rhythmatick of Our Eternal Geomater 130
16. 11. The New Techno-Culture of Space-Time 142
17. 12. Cultural Production and the Dynamic Mechanics of Quanta and the Chaosmos 154
18. 13. The Relativities of Light, Colour, and Sensory Perception 169
19. 14. Conclusion 184
20. Notes 197
21. Bibliography 227
22. Index 239