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

Description: Reading Machines in the Modernist Transatlantic by Eric B. White Reading Machines in the Modernist Transatlantic provides a new account of aesthetic and technological innovation, from the Machine Age to the Information Age. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description A revisionist account of technologys role in the aesthetics, spaces and politics of transatlantic avant-gardesExplores 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 experimentalistsExplores writers and artists inventions as well as their texts, and involves them directly in the messy transductions of technology in cultureDraws on previously unknown photos, manuscripts and other evidence that reveals the untold story of Bob and Rose Browns reading machine a cross-disciplinary, meta-formational, and transnational project that proposed to transform the everyday act of readingReading 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 Browns 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. Back Cover Eric White continues his outstanding work on the transatlantic avant-gardes in this brilliant, deeply researched exploration of the relationship between avant-garde creative practices and technological innovation. This compelling and important study offers new terms for an understanding of the role of technology in modern culture and its broad and far-reaching impact. Laura Marcus, University of OxfordIn Eric Whites acutely-observed study, it is the modernists who first understand that the machines are us, intrinsic to our culture, perceptions and potential, and capable of transforming both our textual experience and social relations.Tim Armstrong, Royal Holloway, University of LondonJust when we might think weve got the twentieth century figured out, along comes a book like Reading Machines to reveal a lost continent of esoterica just below the surface. Altogether an astonishing spectrum, at once scholarly study and funhouse mirror reordering the visage of modernism.Jed Rasula, University of GeorgiaA revisionist account of technologys role in the aesthetics, spaces and politics of transatlantic avant-gardes 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 Browns 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.Eric B. White is Senior Lecturer in American Literature at Oxford Brookes University.Cover image: Saunders, Reading Machine Prototype SIU, 1931Cover design:[EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.comISBN 978-1-4744-4149-0Barcode Flap Eric White continues his outstanding work on the transatlantic avant-gardes in this brilliant, deeply researched exploration of the relationship between avant-garde creative practices and technological innovation. This compelling and important study offers new terms for an understanding of the role of technology in modern culture and its broad and far-reaching impact.Laura Marcus, University of OxfordIn Eric Whites acutely-observed study, it is the modernists who first understand that the machines are us, intrinsic to our culture, perceptions and potential, and capable of transforming both our textual experience and social relations.Tim Armstrong, Royal Holloway, University of LondonJust when we might think weve got the twentieth century figured out, along comes a book like Reading Machines to reveal a lost continent of esoterica just below the surface. Altogether an astonishing spectrum, at once scholarly study and funhouse mirror reordering the visage of modernism.Jed Rasula, University of GeorgiaA revisionist account of technologys role in the aesthetics, spaces and politics of transatlantic avant-gardesReading 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 Browns 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.Eric B. White is Senior Lecturer in American Literature at Oxford Brookes University.Cover image: Saunders, Reading Machine Prototype SIU, 1931Cover design:[EUP logo]edinburghuniversitypress.comISBN 978-1-4744-4149-0Barcode Author Biography 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. Table of Contents List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Dazzling Technologies: Avant-Gardes and Sensory Augmentation in the First World War; 2. Re-Reading the Machine Age: the Audacious Modernity of the Techno-Bathetic Avant-Gardes; 3. Excavating the Readies: The Revolution of the Word, Revised; 4. Ghosts in the Machine Age: Rose and Bob Browns Reading Machines and the Socio-Technics of Social Change; 5. Our Technology Was Vernacular: Radical Technicities in African American Experimental Writing; 6. Afterword: The Robot Does (Not) Exist; Index. Review In Eric Whites acutely-observed study, it is the modernists who first understand that the machines are us, intrinsic to our culture, perceptions and potential, and capable of transforming both our textual experience and social relations.-- "Tim Armstrong, Royal Holloway, University of London"Just when we might think weve 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 Browns Readies, Mina Loys "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.-- "Jed Rasula, University of Georgia" Review Quote In Eric Whites acutely-observed study, it is the modernists who first understand that the machines are us , intrinsic to our culture, perceptions and potential, and capable of transforming both our textual experience and social relations. Promotional "Headline" A revisionist account of technologys role in the aesthetics, spaces and politics of transatlantic avant-gardes Description for Reader A revisionist account of technologys 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 Browns 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 Browns 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. Feature 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 Browns reading machine - a cross-disciplinary, meta-formational, and transnational project that proposed to transform the everyday act of reading Description for Sales People 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 Browns reading machine - a cross-disciplinary, meta-formational, and transnational project that proposed to transform the everyday act of reading Description for Teachers/Educators transatlantic modernism and the avant-garde, modern american literature, cultural geography Details ISBN1474441491 Publisher Edinburgh University Press ISBN-10 1474441491 ISBN-13 9781474441490 Format Hardcover Author Eric B. White Year 2020 Pages 248 Short Title Reading Machines in the Modernist Transatlantic Language English Subtitle Avant-Gardes, Technology and the Everyday Publication Date 2020-07-31 DEWEY 809.911 UK Release Date 2020-07-31 Imprint Edinburgh University Press Place of Publication Edinburgh Country of Publication United Kingdom NZ Release Date 2020-07-31 Illustrations 28 B/W illustrations Edited by Johanna Spanke Birth 1954 Affiliation Winchester College, UK Position Classics Teacher Qualifications R.N., B.S.N., Ocn Audience General AU Release Date 2020-10-28 Alternative 9781474441506 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:133509279;

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