| Publisher | Northwestern University Press |
| Publisher Series | Studies in Russian Literature and Theory |
| Series Editor | Gary Saul Morson |
| Published with Assistance from | Andrew W. Mellon Foundation |
| Cover/Jacket Design by | Marianne Jankowski |
| Cover Art by | Vladimir Tatlin |
| Format | Trade Paperback |
| Language | English |
| Location | United States |
| Copyright | 2013 |
| This Edition Published | 2013 |
| Pages / Font | 308 pages |
| ISBN 13 | 9780810136113 |
| Library of Congress Catalog Card Number | 2012033499 |
| Chapters | Introduction - Imaginative and Instrumental Technologies, 3
Part I. Homo Faber, Homo Ludens
Chapter 1 - Poetry In Motion:Aleksei Gastev and the Aesthetic Origins of Soviet Biomechanics, 25
Chapter 2 - The Biomechanics of Infidelity: Range of Motion and Limits of Control in Meyerhold's Theater, 54
Part II. Alternative Technologies
Chapter 3 - Writing as Bodily Technology in Zamyatin's We, or a Portrait of an Avant-Garde Artist as a Malfunctioning Machine, 87
Chapter 4 - The Incredible Heights of Organic Architecture: Tatlin, Khlebnikov, and the Technological Sublime, 101
Chapter 5 - Olesha's Suicide Machine, 133
Part III. The Homeland of Technology
Chapter 6 - Convention, Play, and Technology in Russian Explorers' American Discoveries, 149
Chapter 7 - Red Pinkertons: Adventures in Artificial Reality, 182
Conclusion - Poetics of the Unconscriptable, 224
Notes, 233
Works Cited, 279
Index, 295 Introduction - Imaginative and Instrumental Technologies, 3
Part I. Homo Faber, Homo Ludens
Chapter 1 - Poetry In Motion:Aleksei Gastev and the Aesthetic Origins of Soviet Biomechanics, 25
Chapter 2 - The Biomechanics of Infidelity: Range of Motion and Limits of Control in Meyerhold's Theater, 54
Part II. Alternative Technologies
Chapter 3 - Writing as Bodily Technology in Zamyatin's We, or a Portrait of an Avant-Garde Artist as a Malfunctioning Machine, 87
Chapter 4 - The Incredible Heights of Organic Architecture: Tatlin, Khlebnikov, and the Technological Sublime, 101
Chapter 5 - Olesha's Suicide Machine, 133
Part III. The Homeland of Technology
Chapter 6 - Convention, Play, and Technology in Russian Explorers' American Discoveries, 149
Chapter 7 - Red Pinkertons: Adventures in Artificial Reality, 182
Conclusion - Poetics of the Unconscriptable, 224
Notes, 233
Works Cited, 279
Index, 295 Show all ▾ |
| Notes | subtitle: Technology and the Arts in Russia of the 1920s front cover art: Tatlin's drawing of The Monument to the Third International, 1920. |
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