With apologies for cross-posting.
The next London Modernism Seminar will take place on Saturday 6 October 11 am-1pm in Room 349 Senate House. Unfortunately due to unforeseen circumstances Rachel Murray will be unable to give her paper. We're very pleased to have Alex Goody and Rhiannon Moss as our speakers. Everyone is welcome to attend and you can find directions to the venue on the IES website: http://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/about-us/contact-us
Best wishes
Clara Jones, Kings College London, [log in to unmask]
Suzanne Hobson, Queen Mary, University of London, [log in to unmask]
Tim Armstrong, Royal Holloway, University of London, [log in to unmask]
David Ayers, University of Kent, David Ayers, [log in to unmask]
Helen Carr, Goldsmiths, University of London, [log in to unmask]
Peter Fifield, Birkbeck University of London, [log in to unmask]
Scott McCracken, Queen Mary, University of London, [log in to unmask]
Alex Goody, 'Modernist Machine Women: Robots, Radio, Typewriters'
This paper follows an exploratory path through some modernist women writers, looking at the place of the machine in their aesthetics, thematics and textual politics. Building on some of the key insights of contemporary posthuman feminism I engage with the work of Djuna Barnes, Baroness Elsa von Freytag Loringhoven, Mina Loy, and Juliette Roche, examining the role of writing and sound technologies in their work and their navigations of the modern techno-city. The work of the modernist women I consider serves to highlight how humans can be rewritten in the encounter with a technological exterior, how the boundaries between the natural and artificial are elided in modern media and inscription technologies, and how different women poets imagine the relationship between embodiment, media technologies and the modern city. Ranging from Barnes at the typewriter, to Baroness Elsa’s radio-sex, to Roche’s critique of Dada in Demi Circle, to Loy’s late poetry, I redress some of the more masculinist accounts in modernist technology studies and consider how women writers consider the interaction of bodies and machines in modernity in particular ways. As this paper argues women should be read as neither subject to nor at odds with technology, and with the surprises and variations of media technology are manifest the surprises and variations in gender. I will argue that media technologies become a fundamental stimulus for women writers to dismantle coercive, singular accounts of women’s subjectivity and to imagine the modern(ist) subject differently.
Rhiannon Moss, 'Feet Dragging and Breath Short: Radiogenic Beckett’
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