TY  - BOOK
AU  - Goble,Mark
TI  - Beautiful Circuits: Modernism and the Mediated Life 
SN  - 9780231146708
AV  - P96.L5 G63 2010
U1  - 302.230973 22
PY  - 2010///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Columbia University Press, 
KW  - American literature
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Interpersonal communication
KW  - Technological innovations
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Mass media and culture
KW  - Mass media and literature
KW  - Social interaction
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: "Communications Now Are Love" --; Part One: Communications --; 1. Pleasure at a Distance in Henry James and Others --; 2. Love and Noise --; Part Two: Records --; 3. Soundtracks: Modernism, Fidelity, Race --; 4. The New Permanent Record --; Epilogue: Looking Back at Mediums --; Notes --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - Considering texts by Henry James, Gertrude Stein, James Weldon Johnson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, James Agee, and William Carlos Williams, alongside film, painting, music, and popular culture, Mark Goble explores the development of American modernism as it was shaped by its response to technology and an attempt to change how literature itself could communicate.Goble's original readings reinterpret the aesthetics of modernism in the early twentieth century, when new modes of communication made the experience of technology an occasion for profound experimentation and reflection. He follows the assimilation of such "old" media technologies as the telegraph, telephone, and phonograph and their role in inspiring fantasies of connection, which informed a commitment to the materiality of artistic mediums. Describing how relationships made possible by technology became more powerfully experienced with technology, Goble explores a modernist fetish for media that shows no signs of abating. The "mediated life" puts technology into communication with a series of shifts in how Americans conceive the mechanics and meanings of their connections to one another, and therefore to the world and to their own modernity
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7312/gobl14670
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231518406
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231518406/original
ER  -