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.
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