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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.
Contents
List of FiguresAcknowledgments
Introduction: Modernist Technology Studies - Alex Goody and Ian Whittington
I. Machines
1. Electricity: Technologies and Aesthetics - Laura Ludtke
2. Clocks: Modernist Heterochrony and the Contemporary Big Clock - Charles Tung
3. Print: Anaïs Nin's Embodied Encounters with Print Technology - Jennifer Sorensen
4. Subways: Underground Networks Through Modernist Poetry and Prose - Sunny Stalter-Pace
5. Automobiles: The Modernist Gaze and Speed's Visual Limit-field - Enda Duffy
6. Aeroplanes: Rethinking Aeriality in a Long 1930s - Leo Mellor
7. Robots: Gendered Machines and Anxious Technophilia - Katherine Shingler
II. Media
8. Materials: Glass, Iron and Ghostly Fabric - David Trotter
9. Advertising: Magazine Ads and the Creation of Femininity in Early-Twentieth-century America - Einav Rabinovitch-Fox
10. Photography: Gertrude Käsebier and the Maternal Line of Sight - Alix Beeston
11. X-rays: Technological Revelation and its Cultural Receptions - Tom Slevin
12. Cinema: Notes on Germaine Dulac's 'Integral Cinema', Form and Spirit - Felicity Gee
13. Radio: Blindness, Disability and Technology - Emily Bloom
14. Music: Modernist Remediation and Technologies of Listening - Josh Epstein
15. Performance: Machine Dances and the Avant-garde's Technological Imaginary - Emilie Morin
16. Amplification: At Home with Marlene Dietrich Overseas - Damien Keane
III. Bodies
17. Sex: Hypnosis, Hormones, Birth Control and the Modernist Body - Jana Funke
18. Race: Fordism, Factories and the Mechanical Reproduction of Racial Identity - Joshua Lam
19. Technics: Education and Pharmakon in Lawrence, Simondon and Stiegler - Jeff Wallace
20. Germs: The Shocks, Politics and Aesthetics of Microbial Modernism - Maebh Long
21. Noise: Labour, Industry and Embodiment in Interwar Factory Fiction - Anna Snaith
IV. Systems
22. Nation: GPO Documentaries and Infrastructures of the Nation-state - Janice Ho
23. Infrastructure: Women Writers Confront Large Technological Systems - Jennifer L. Lieberman
24. Paperwork: Atomic Age Bureaucracy in C. P. Snow's Strangers and Brothers - Caroline Z. Krzakowski
25. Information: Literature and Knowledge in the Age of Bradshaw and Baedeker - James Purdon
26. Computation: The Work of Calculation Between Human and Mechanism - Andrew Pilsch
27. Networks: Modernism in Circulation, 1920-2020 - Shawna Ross
28. War: Modernism in Camouflage, Strategic Fantasy and the Technological Sublime - Patrick Deer
