Reading Machines in the Modernist Transatlantic

A revisionist account of technology’s role in the aesthetics, spaces and politics of transatlantic avant-gardes Explores of a range of key avant-garde formations in the modernist transatlantic period, from the Italian futurists and English Vorticists to the Dada-surrealist and post-Harlem Renaissance African American experimentalistsExplores writers’ and artists’ inventions as well as their texts, and involves them directly in the messy transductions of technology in cultureDraws on previously u