Bodies and Machines is a striking and persuasive examination of the
body-machine complex and its effects on the modern American
cultural imagination. Bodies and Machines, first published in 1992,
explores the links between techniques of representation and social
and scientific technologies of power in a wide range of realist and
naturalist discourses and practices. Seltzer draws on realist and
naturalist writing, such as the work of Hawthorne and Henry James,
and the discourses which inform it: from scouting manuals and the
programmes of systematic management to accounts of sexual biology
and the rituals of consumer culture. He explores other
mass-produced and mass-consumed cultural forms, including visual
representations such as composite photographs, scale models, and
the astonishing iconography of standardization.
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