“The electrified modern world electrified minds as well as bodies that, in Schiele’s words, were ‘endowed with sight’ and now braved the racing current unleashed by these apparatuses and contexts: radio, cinema, photography, the rotary printing press. As bodies careened into patterns of performative repetition because of the machine-like movements demanded by industrial labour, the spirits melded new technological developments to ancient concerns…”

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