Technology

By what writing technologies are technologies represented? And what are the politics of those writing technologies? These must be important questions for technohistorians; no one genre of representation determines the reception of technologies like electricity or automobiles, and below any essay on technology lie buried assumptions of what might constitute adequate and inadequate, normative and abnormal structures of representation. I've chosen to look at the representation of technology in manifestos because this genre appears to …

…to a Marxian narrative that includes truly radical and powerful revisions of history, economics, technology, classes and the state. Whether consciously or not, it blurs the boundaries between history and drama, economics and the conventions of fiction, the familiar roles in art and the unfamiliar roles of Marxian political landscapes. It also serves as the Father against which later authors of manifesti, including Marinetti, Breton, and Haraway, would both rebel and measure themselves. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**