Bodies and Machines (Routledge Revivals)

by Mark Seltzer

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781317570912
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/13/2014
Series:	Routledge Revivals
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	248
File size:	9 MB

About the Author

Seltzer, Mark

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Introduction: Case Studies and Cultural Logistics; Part 1: The Naturalist Machine Part 2: Physical Capital: The Romance of the Market in Machine Culture Part 3: Statistical Persons Part 4: The Still Life Part 5: The Love-Master; Notes; Index