Bodies and Machines

Contents......Page 5
Acknowledgments......Page 7
Introduction: Case Studies and Cultural Logistics
......Page 9
The Problem of the Body in Machine Culture......Page 11
Agencies of Expression......Page 14
Bodies in Motion......Page 20
Intimacy with Machines......Page 25
PART I: The Naturalist Machine......Page 31
Production and Generation......Page 33
Perverse Accouchements......Page 43
The Mechanics of Writing......Page 50
PART II: Physical Capital: The Romance of the Market in Machine Culture......Page 53
Persons and Things......Page 55
Typical Americans......Page 57
Culturalism and Consumerism......Page 67
Romantic Property......Page 74
Status, Contract, Discipline......Page 79
The Paper System......Page 82
Market Culture and Machine Culture......Page 88
PART III: Statistical Persons......Page 99
How the Other Half Looks......Page 101
The Body-Machine Complex......Page 111
Working Models......Page 121
PART IV: The Still Life
......Page 127
The Aesthetics of Consumption......Page 129
Agoraphilia......Page 133
The Girl-Man......Page 137
Still Lives......Page 144
Mechanical Prime Movers......Page 151
PART V: The Love-Master......Page 155
The Anthropology of Boys......Page 157
Making Men......Page 160
Living Diagrams......Page 163
National Geographies......Page 170
Men in Furs......Page 174
Notes......Page 181
Index
......Page 235