Mechanical Occult: Automatism, Modernism, and the Specter of Politics - Tapa dura

Clinton, Alan Ramon

 
9780820469430: Mechanical Occult: Automatism, Modernism, and the Specter of Politics
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ISBN 10: 0820469432 ISBN 13: 9780820469430
Editorial: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 2004

Sinopsis

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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Acerca del autor

Alan Ramon Clinton received his PhD. in English from the University of Florida, and he has published articles on technology, spirituality, and twentieth-century literature. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Literature, Communication, and Culture at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Editorial
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Año de publicación
2004
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0820469432
ISBN 13 
9780820469430
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
238
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