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, and dispensing erudition with a light touch, Sarlo shows how the products of modern technology (radio, the telephone and telegraph, movies, and...
In what Beatriz Sarlo calls six -episodes, - ranging from the proto-science fiction of Horacio Quiroga and the apocalyptic urban surrealism of Roberto...