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Technology's Pulse: Essays on Rhythm in German Modernism (Paperback, New)
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Technology's Pulse: Essays on Rhythm in German Modernism (Paperback, New)
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Modernity, as has often been observed, was fundamentally concerned
with questions of temporality. The period around 1900, in
particular, witnessed numerous efforts to define, discipline or
'liberate' temporal experience. Within this broader framework of
thinking about temporality, 'rhythm' came to form the object of an
intense and widespread preoccupation. Rhythmical research played a
central role not only in the reconceptualisation of human
physiology and labour in the late nineteenth century, but also in
the emergence of a new leisure culture in the early twentieth. The
book traces the ways in which notions of 'rhythm' were mobilised
both to conceptualise modernity (narrate its origins and prescribe
its directions) and, in particular, to forge a new understanding of
temporal media that came to mark the mass-mediated experience of
the 1920s: a conception of artistic media as mediators between the
organic and the rational, the time of the body and that of the
machine. Michael Cowan is Associate Professor of German and World
Cinemas at McGill University. He is the author of Cult of the Will:
Nervousness and German Modernity (2008), as well as several
articles and collections on German literature, film, media and
cultural history.
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