Vibratory Modernism

Introduction 1. From Vibratory Occultism to Vibratory Modernism: Blackwood, Lawrence, Woolf; Justin Sausman 2. 'A Sinister Resonance': Vibration, Sound, and the Birth of Conrad's Marlow; Julie Napolin 3. Physics as Narrative: Lewis, Pound and the London Vortex; Andrew Logemann 4. Throbbing Human Engines: Mechanical Vibration, Entropy and Death in Marinetti, Joyce, Ehrenburg and Eliot; Matthew Wraith 5. Materializing the Medium: Ectoplasm and the Quest for Supra-Normal Biology in Fin-de-Siecle Science and Art; Robert Michael Brain 6. A Sense and Essence of Nature: Wave Patterns in the Paintings of Frantisek Kupka; John G. Hatch 7. Ether Machines: Raoul Hausmann's Optophonetic Media; Arndt Niebisch 8. Vibratory Photography; Anthony Enns 9. Good Vibrations: Avant-Garde Theatre and Etherial Aesthetics from Kandinsky to Futurism; Mike Vanden Heuvel 10. The Vibratorium Electrified; Nicholas Ridout 11. Vibration, Percussion, and Primitivism in Avant-Garde Performance; Adrian Curtin 12. Deleted Expletives: Vibration & the Modernist Vocal Imaginary; Simon Bayley