The Technical Imagination: Argentine Culture's Modern Dreams

by Beatriz Sarlo and Beatriz Sarla

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"