Wonderlands of the avant-garde [electronic resource] : technology and the arts in Russia of the 1920s / Julia Vaingurt.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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