Alice Dailey, "How to Do Things with Dead People: History, Technology, and Temporality from Shakespeare to Warhol" (Cornell UP, 2022)
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Shakespeare's History and Other Reproductive Technologies
Shakespeare's histories contain photographic selphes and x ray images, just as the glitchy machinery of the electric chair mirrors the reproductive oper tions of the play's english throne. The throne and the electric chair share conceptual intera structures that transcend the specific chronologies of technical innovation. Identifying the common underlying phenomena that such technologies reproduce enables movement beyond distinct histories of literary production or mechanical innovation. Such work opens a transhistorical, intermedial conversation about the generative forms, ontol aquestions and representational aesthetics that collect around the un dead dead.
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