Abstract
Mark Goble’s Beautiful Circuits: Modernism and the Mediated Life is an important examination of how new information technologies shaped modernist forms of intimacy. This wide-ranging book engages with recent work on new media, sexuality studies, and racial politics, while also revisiting the earliest accounts of modernism’s formalist aesthetics. The result is a rich account of how American modernism’s concerns over information, race, and sexuality were absorbed by the machines that mediated them.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 185-190 |
| Journal | Journal of Modern Literature |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2012 |
Keywords
- modernist art
- modern literature
- musical aesthetics
- literary formalism
- machinery
- formalist art
- cameos
- telegraph
- celebrities
- communications technology