Contents

pp v-vii

List of Figures

pp viii-x

Acknowledgements

pp xi-xii

Introduction: Modernist Technology Studies

pp 1-20

Part I - Machines

pp 21-22

1 - Electricity: Technologies and Aesthetics

pp 23-35

2 - Clocks: Modernist Heterochrony and the Contemporary Big Clock

pp 36-50

3 - Print: Anaïs Nin’s Embodied Encounters with Print Technology

pp 51-62

4 - Subways: Underground Networks Through Modernist Poetry and Prose

pp 63-77

5 - Automobiles: The Modernist Gaze and Speed’s Visual Limit-field

pp 78-90

6 - Aeroplanes: Rethinking Aeriality in a Long 1930s

pp 91-104

7 - Robots: Gendered Machines and Anxious Technophilia

pp 105-122

Part II - Media

pp 123-124

8 - Materials: Glass, Iron and Ghostly Fabric

pp 125-137

9 - Advertising: Magazine Ads and the Creation of Femininity in Early Twentieth-century America

pp 138-154

10 - Photography: Gertrude Käsebier and the Maternal Line of Sight

pp 155-174

11 - X-rays: Technological Revelation and its Cultural Receptions

pp 175-191

12 - Cinema: Notes on Germaine Dulac’s ‘Integral Cinema’, Form and Spirit

pp 192-211

13 - Radio: Blindness, Disability and Technology

pp 212-225

14 - Music: Modernist Remediation and Technologies of Listening

pp 226-242

15 - Performance: Machine Dances and the Avant-garde’s Technological Imaginary

pp 243-256

16 - Amplification: At Home with Marlene Dietrich Overseas

pp 257-270

Part III - Bodies

pp 271-272

17 - Sex: Hypnosis, Hormones, Birth Control and the Modernist Body

pp 273-285

18 - Race: Fordism, Factories and the Mechanical Reproduction of Racial Identity

pp 286-299

19 - Technics: Education and Pharmakon in Lawrence, Simondon and Stiegler

pp 300-313

20 - Germs: The Shocks, Politics and Aesthetics of Microbial Modernism

pp 314-327

21 - Noise: Labour, Industry and Embodiment in Interwar Factory Fiction

pp 328-342

Part IV - Systems

pp 343-344