Reading Machines in the Modernist Transatlantic

Avant-Gardes, Technology and the Everyday

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

Av Eric B White, Oxford Brookes University) White, Eric B (Senior Lecturer in American Literature, Eric B. White

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Reading Machines in the Modernist Transatlantic provides a new account of aesthetic and technological innovation, from the Machine Age to the Information Age. Drawing on a wealth of archival discoveries, it argues that modernist avant-gardes used technology not only as a means of analysing culture, but as a way of feeding back into it. As well as uncovering a new invention by Mina Loy, the untold story of Bob Brown's 'reading machine' and the radical technicities of African American experimentalists including Gwendolyn Bennett and Ralph Ellison, the book places avant-gardes at the centre of innovation across a variety of fields. From dazzle camouflage to microfilm, and from rail networks to broadcast systems, White explores how vanguardists harnessed socio-technics to provoke social change.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-05-30
Mått156 x 234 x 16 mm
Vikt426 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor288
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474441506

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Eric White is Senior Lecturer in American Literature at Oxford Brookes University. Originally from Vancouver, Canada, he has taught at the University of Cambridge, Anglia Ruskin University and the University of Edinburgh, and has held fellowships at the Beinecke Library, Yale University, the University of Edinburgh, and the University of Oxford. Eric is PI and co-founder of the Avant-Gardes and Speculative Technology Project, which re-imagines modernists’ inventions using Augmented Reality.

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction1. Dazzling Technologies: Avant-Gardes and Sensory Augmentation in the First World War2. Re-Reading the Machine Age: the ‘Audacious Modernity’ of the Techno-Bathetic Avant-Gardes3. Excavating the ‘Readies’: The Revolution of the Word, Revised4. Ghosts in the Machine Age: Rose and Bob Brown’s Reading Machines and the Socio-Technics of Social Change5. ‘Our Technology Was Vernacular’: Radical Technicities in African American Experimental Writing6. Afterword: The Robot Does (Not) Exist

Just when we might think we’ve got the twentieth-century figured out, along comes a book like Reading Machines to reveal a lost continent of esoterica just below the surface. Eric White plunges intrepidly into a swirl of technical manuals, legal documents and all manner of memorabilia in this lavish exposition of the material substrate of high-flying ideas like Bob Brown’s Readies, Mina Loy’s "verrovoile," and the "dazzle ship" camouflages of the Great War. Altogether an astonishing spectrum, at once scholarly study and funhouse mirror reordering the visage of modernism.