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 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781474441490)

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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

$120.00
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

$120.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Eric B. White
ISBN-10: 1474441491
ISBN-13: 9781474441490
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/22/2020
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.33lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d

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Choice 06/01/2021
By Eric B. White
By Eric B. White
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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.

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