The Murder Factory: Life and Work of H. H. Holmes, First American Serial Killer by Midal, Alexandra

The Murder Factory: Life and Work of H. H. Holmes, First American Serial Killer

The simultaneous emergence of the serial killer and the assembly line as expressions of the rationality of...
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Author: Alexandra Midal
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The Murder Factory: Life and Work of H. H. Holmes, First American Serial Killer by Midal, Alexandra

The Murder Factory: Life and Work of H. H. Holmes, First American Serial Killer

$235.60

The Murder Factory: Life and Work of H. H. Holmes, First American Serial Killer

$235.60
Author: Alexandra Midal
Format: Paperback
Language: English
The simultaneous emergence of the serial killer and the assembly line as expressions of the rationality of modern production methods.

In 1896, at the age of 35, Henry Howard Holmes, whose real name was Herman Webster Mudget, became the first serial killer in the United States, confessing to dozens of crimes. To carry out his activities quietly, he built in Chicago a building so vast that his neighbors called it the "Ch teau." Located just a stone's throw from the most sophisticated slaughterhouses in the world, lethal, practical, and comfortable, Holmes's building was equipped with the latest innovations. A rational, cozy masterpiece of crime dressed in slippers, Holmes's project fit perfectly into the functionalist project of the modern world.

In The Murder Factory, Alexandra Midal examines the almost simultaneous emergence of the industrial revolution and the figure of the serial killer. Far from being a coincidence, it marks the rationality of new production methods--of which the assembly line and serial murder are two expressions. In the Holmes case, an antihero of modern history can shed light on the treatment of living things brought about by this economic, mechanical, and cultural revolution.

H. H. Holmes's confessions, published in the Philadelphia Enquirer just before his execution in April 1896, follow Midal's text.



Author: Alexandra Midal
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Published: 05/09/2023
Pages: 120
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9783956795435

About the Author
Alexandra Midal is a curator and Professor of History and Theory of Design at HEAD-Genève. She is former director of the the Regional Contemporary Art Funds of Haute-Normandie (FRAC) and a former assistant to the artist Dan Graham for public commissions.

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