Modernism, Technology, and the Body

[Dave Monroe]

>From Tim Armstrong, Modernism, Technology, and the Body: A Cultural
Study (New York: Cambridge UP, 1998). "Introduction," pp. 1-6:

   "Modernism ... is characterized by the desire to intervene in the
body; to render it part of modernity by techniques which may be
biological, mechanical, or behavioural." (p. 6)

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