Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction xiii
5. A Note on Acronyms and Reference Style xxiii
6. 1. The Poetic Body in the New Culture of Time and Space: Communication, Art, and Technology in the Twentieth Century 1
7. 2. The Micro as the Medium and the Message: Synaesthesia, the Harmonization of the Senses, and the Mechanics of Art 21
8. 3. From Sense to Nonsense: Gesture, the Body, and Communication 39
9. 4. The Joyce Era: Modernity and Poetics 56
10. 5. The Book, the Press, Eisenstein, and Joyce: Changing Relations in Culture, Technology, and Communication 74
11. 6. Beyond Media 91
12. 7. The Comic, Wit, and Laughter: Dramatic Engineering of Communication 109
13. 8. A Dramatic Theory of Communication 126
14. 9. Communication and Comedy: Negativity, Satire, and Secular Communion 142
15. 10. Tactility and the lntersensory: Body, Dance, and Communication 157
16. 11. Electro-Mechanization and the Global City: Poetic Engineering and the Open Text 171
17. 12. Memory: The Crux of Communication 191
18. 13. History of the Poetic: A Major Aspect of the History of Communication 207
19. 14. High Decibel Dialogue of the Electronic Fairground: Mediating Communication by Talking about It 222
20. 15. The Ambivalence of the Poetic as Critique: Science Fiction and Fellini Films 242
21. 16. Conclusion 261
22. Notes 277
23. Bibliography 305
24. Index 317