Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: imaginative and instrumental technologies
  • Part 1. Homo faber, homo ludens
  • Poetry in motion: Aleksei Gastev and the aesthetic origins of soviet Biomechanics
  • The biomechanics of infidelity: range of motion and limits of control in Meyerhold's theater
  • Part 2. Alternative technologies
  • Writing as bodily technology in Zamyatin's We, or a portrait of an avant-garde artist as a malfunctioning machine
  • The incredible heights of organic architecture: tatlin, Khlebnikov, and the technological sublime
  • Olesha's suicide machine
  • Part 3. The homeland of technology
  • Convention, play, and technology in Russian explorers' American discoveries
  • Red Pinkertons: adventures in artificial reality
  • Conclusion: poetics of the unconscriptable.