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CCR751 – Dinerstein – Swinging The Machine

Posted by justin on October 16, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Dinerstein, Joel. Swinging the Machine: Modernity, Technology, and African American Culture between the World Wars. Amherst: UMASS Press, 2003. Introduction: Bodies and Machines Dinerstein provides a framework for understanding his work in this first section. He notes that he is interested in exploring an “aesthetics of acceleration” – or a demonstration of the way that A.A. cultural forms constitute any American claim of being an “accelerated”... Read More

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