The Technical Imagination: Argentine Culture's Modern Dreams

by Beatriz Sarlo and Beatriz Sarla

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In what Beatriz Sarlo calls six "episodes," ranging from the proto-science fiction of Horacio Quiroga and the apocalyptic urban surrealism of Roberto Arlt through the development of mass media, tales of inventors and inventions, and an entertaining tour of "weird science" and medical quackery, The Technical Imagination examines how technology entered the popular imagination in 1920s and 1930s Argentina. Often wry, but always sympathetic,...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0804735425

ISBN13:9780804735421

Release Date:December 2007

Publisher:Stanford University Press

Length:208 Pages

Weight:0.84 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 5.9" x 8.6"

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Engineering History Technology

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