Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-294) and index.
Contents:
Conclusion: poetics of the unconscriptable. 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.
Series:
Northwestern University Press studies in Russian literature and theory
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