An exploration of trends and cultures connected to electrical telegraphy and recent digital communications, this collection emerges from the research project Scrambled Messages: The Telegraphic Imaginary 1866–1900, which investigated cultural phenomena relating to the 1866 transatlantic telegraph. It interrogates the ways in which society, politics, literature and art are imbricated with changing communications technologies, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Contributors consider control, imperialism and capital, as well as utopianism and hope, grappling with the ways in which human connections (and their messages) continue to be shaped by communications infrastructures.

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Information

Publisher

Routledge

Year

2021

ISBN

9781000383652

Edition

Topic

History

Subtopic

World History

Index

History

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 To Be Connected: Perspectives on Autonomy and Risk from the Electric Age
2 Cyborg Imperium, c. 1900
3 Universal Visual Languages in the Age of Telegraphy
4 Plotting Passengers at a Metropolitan Station: Paddington in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
5 ‘Some Sentient Creature’. The Cable Body and the Body of Labour: Robert Dudley, William Howard Russell and the 1865 Voyage of the Great Eastern
6 Signal Markings in Victorian Miscellanies: Noise and Signal from the Idyll to Aestheticism
7 ‘Recoding the Sea’: Uneven and Combined Capitalism in the Work of Allan Sekula (Telegraph Version)
8 Random International
List of Contributors
Index