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Mechanical Occult - Automatism, Modernism, and the Specter of Politics (Hardcover)
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Mechanical Occult - Automatism, Modernism, and the Specter of Politics (Hardcover)
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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, technology
and spirituality formed uncanny alliances in countless
manifestations of automatism. From Victorian mediums to the
psychiatrists who studied them, from the Fordist assembly line to
the Hollywood studios that adopted its practices, from Surrealism
on the left to Futurism and Vorticism on the right, the
unpredictable paths of automatic practice and ideology present a
means by which to explore both the utopian and dystopian
possibilities of technological and cultural innovation. Focusing on
the poetry of T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and William Butler Yeats,
Alan Ramon Clinton argues that, given the wide-reaching influence
of automatism, as much can be learned from these writers' means of
production as from their finished products. At a time when
criticism has grown polarized between political and aesthetic
approaches to high modernism, this book provocatively develops its
own automatic procedures to explore the works of these writers as
fields rich in potential choices, some more spectral than others.
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