Reading Machines in the Modernist Transatlantic: Avant-Gardes, Technology and the Everyday

A revisionist account of technology's role in the aesthetics, spaces and politics of transatlantic avant-gardes Explores of...
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Author: Eric B. White
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Reading Machines in the Modernist Transatlantic: Avant-Gardes, Technology and the Everyday by B. White, Eric

Reading Machines in the Modernist Transatlantic: Avant-Gardes, Technology and the Everyday

$107.40

Reading Machines in the Modernist Transatlantic: Avant-Gardes, Technology and the Everyday

$107.40
Author: Eric B. White
Format: Paperback
Language: English

A revisionist account of technology's role in the aesthetics, spaces and politics of transatlantic avant-gardes

  • Explores of a range of key avant-garde formations in the modernist transatlantic period, from the Italian futurists and English Vorticists to the Dada-surrealist and post-Harlem Renaissance African American experimentalists
  • Explores writers' and artists' inventions as well as their texts, and involves them directly in the messy transductions of technology in culture
  • Draws on previously unknown photos, manuscripts and other evidence that reveals the untold story of Bob and Rose Brown's 'reading machine' - a cross-disciplinary, meta-formational, and transnational project that proposed to transform the everyday act of reading

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.



Author: Eric B. White
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 05/30/2022
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.64d
ISBN: 9781474441506

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