Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction - Imaginative and Instrumental Technologies
Part I. Homo Faber, Homo Ludens
Chapter One - Poetry in Motion: Aleksei Gastev and the Aesthetic Origins of Soviet Biomechanics
Chapter Two - The Biomechanics of Infidelity: Range of Motion and Limits of Control in Meyerhold’s Theater
Part II. Alternative Technologies
Chapter Three - Writing as Bodily Technology in Zamyatin’s We, or a Portrait of an Avant-Garde Artist as a Malfunctioning Machine
Chapter Four - The Incredible Heights of Organic Architecture: Tatlin, Khlebnikov, and the Technological Sublime
Chapter Five - Olesha’s Suicide Machine
Part III. The Homeland of Technology
Chapter Six - Convention, Play, and Technology in Russian Explorers’ American Discoveries
Chapter Seven - Red Pinkertons: Adventures in Artificial Reality
Conclusion - Poetics of the Unconscriptable
Notes
Works Cited
Index