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The Perversity of Things: Hugo Gernsback on Media, Tinkering, and Scientifiction
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table of contents
  1. Front Matter
    1. Cover
    2. Title Page
    3. Copyright Page
    4. Dedication
    5. Chronological Contents
    6. Thematic Contents
    7. How to Use This Book
    8. Acknowledgments
    9. Introduction
      1. “up-to-date technic”: Hugo Gernsback’s Pulp Media Theory
      2. “a perfect Babel of voices”: Communities of Inquiry and Wireless Publics
      3. “’phone and code”: Dynamophone, Radioson, and Other Emerging Media
      4. “certain future instrumentalities”: The Mineral Proficiencies of Tinkering
      5. “we exploit the future”: Scientifiction’s Debut
  2. Part I. Tinkering
    1. A New Interrupter (1905)
    2. The Dynamophone (1908)
    3. The Born and the Mechanical Inventor (1911)
    4. The Radioson Detector (1914)
    5. What to Invent (1916)
    6. The Perversity of Things (1916)
    7. Thomas A. Edison Speaks to You (1919)
    8. Human Progress (1922)
    9. Results of the $500.00 Prize Contest: Who Will Save the Radio Amateur? (1923)
    10. The Isolator (1925)
    11. The Detectorium (1926)
    12. New Radio “Things” Wanted (1927)
  3. Part II. History and Theory of Media
    1. The Aerophone Number (1908)
    2. Why “Radio Amateur News”Is Here (1919)
    3. Science and Invention (1920)
    4. Learn and Work While You Sleep (1921)
    5. The “New” Science and Invention (1923)
    6. Are We Intelligent? (1923)
  4. Part III. Broadcast Regulation
    1. The Wireless Joker (1908)
    2. The Wireless Association of America (1909)
    3. The Roberts Wireless Bill (1910)
    4. The Alexander Wireless Bill (1912)
    5. Wireless and the Amateur: A Retrospect (1913)
    6. Sayville (1915)
    7. War and the Radio Amateur (1917)
    8. Silencing America’s Wireless (1917)
    9. Amateur Radio Restored (1919)
    10. The Future of Radio (1919)
    11. Wired versus Space Radio (1927)
  5. Part IV. Wireless
    1. [Editorials] (1909)
    2. From The Wireless Telephone (1911)
    3. From A Treatise on Wireless Telegraphy (1913)
    4. The Future of Wireless (1916)
    5. From Radio for All (1922)
    6. Radio Broadcasting (1922)
    7. Is Radio at a Standstill? (1926)
    8. Edison and Radio (1926)
    9. Why the Radio Set Builder? (1927)
    10. Radio Enters into a New Phase (1927)
    11. The Short-Wave Era (1928)
  6. Part V. Television
    1. Television and the Telephot (1909)
    2. A Radio-Controlled Television Plane (1924)
    3. After Television—What? (1927)
    4. Television Technique (1931)
  7. Part VI. Sound
    1. Hearing through Your Teeth (1916)
    2. Grand Opera by Wireless (1919)
    3. The Physiophone: Music for the Deaf (1920)
    4. The “Pianorad” (1926)
  8. Part VII. Scientifiction
    1. Signaling to Mars (1909)
    2. Our Cover (1913)
    3. Phoney Patent Offizz: Bookworm’s Nurse (1915)
    4. Imagination versus Facts (1916)
    5. Interplanetarian Wireless (1920)
    6. An American Jules Verne (1920)
    7. 10,000 Years Hence (1922)
    8. Predicting Future Inventions (1923)
    9. The Dark Age of Science (1925)
    10. A New Sort of Magazine (1926)
    11. The Lure of Scientifiction (1926)
    12. Fiction versus Facts (1926)
    13. Editorially Speaking (1926)
    14. Imagination and Reality (1926)
    15. How to Write “Science” Stories (1930)
    16. Science Fiction versus Science Faction (1930)
    17. Wonders of the Machine Age (1931)
    18. Reasonableness in Science Fiction (1932)
  9. Part VIII. Selected Fiction
    1. Ralph 124C 41+, Part 3 (1911)
    2. Baron Münchhausen’s New Scientific Adventures, Part 5: “Münchhausen Departs for the Planet Mars” (1915)
    3. The Magnetic Storm (1918)
    4. The Electric Duel (1927)
    5. The Killing Flash (1929)
  10. Back Matter
    1. Index

Electronic Mediations

Series Editors: N. Katherine Hayles, Peter Krapp, Rita Raley, and Samuel Weber

Founding Editor: Mark Poster

52. The Perversity of Things: Hugo Gernsback on Media, Tinkering, and Scientifiction

Grant Wythoff, Editor

51. The Participatory Condition in the Digital Age

Darin Barney, Gabriella Coleman, Christine Ross, Jonathan Sterne, and Tamar Tembeck, Editors

50. Mixed Realism: Videogames and the Violence of Fiction

Timothy J. Welsh

49. Program Earth: Environmental Sensing Technology and the Making of a Computational Planet

Jennifer Gabrys

48. On the Existence of Digital Objects

Yuk Hui

47. How to Talk about Videogames

Ian Bogost

46. A Geology of Media

Jussi Parikka

45. World Projects: Global Information before World War I

Markus Krajewski

44. Reading Writing Interfaces: From the Digital to the Bookbound

Lori Emerson

43. Nauman Reiterated

Janet Kraynak

42. Comparative Textual Media: Transforming the Humanities in the Postprint Era

N. Katherine Hayles and Jessica Pressman, Editors

41. Off the Network: Disrupting the Digital World

Ulises Ali Mejias

40. Summa Technologiae

Stanisław Lem

39. Digital Memory and the Archive

Wolfgang Ernst

38. How to Do Things with Videogames

Ian Bogost

37. Noise Channels: Glitch and Error in Digital Culture

Peter Krapp

36. Gameplay Mode: War, Simulation, and Technoculture

Patrick Crogan

35. Digital Art and Meaning: Reading Kinetic Poetry, Text Machines, Mapping Art, and Interactive Installations

Roberto Simanowski

34. Vilém Flusser: An Introduction

Anke Finger, Rainer Guldin, and Gustavo Bernardo

33. Does Writing Have a Future?

Vilém Flusser

32. Into the Universe of Technical Images

Vilém Flusser

31. Hypertext and the Female Imaginary

Jaishree K. Odin

30. Screens: Viewing Media Installation Art

Kate Mondloch

29. Games of Empire: Global Capitalism and Video Games

Nick Dyer-Witheford and Greig de Peuter

28. Tactical Media

Rita Raley

27. Reticulations: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Networks of the Political

Philip Armstrong

26. Digital Baroque: New Media Art and Cinematic Folds

Timothy Murray

25. Ex-foliations: Reading Machines and the Upgrade Path

Terry Harpold

24. Digitize This Book! The Politics of New Media, or Why We Need Open Access Now

Gary Hall

23. Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet

Lisa Nakamura

22. Small Tech: The Culture of Digital Tools

Byron Hawk, David M. Rieder, and Ollie Oviedo, Editors

21. The Exploit: A Theory of Networks

Alexander R. Galloway and Eugene Thacker

20. Database Aesthetics: Art in the Age of Information Overflow

Victoria Vesna, Editor

19. Cyberspaces of Everyday Life

Mark Nunes

18. Gaming: Essays on Algorithmic Culture

Alexander R. Galloway

17. Avatars of Story

Marie-Laure Ryan

16. Wireless Writing in the Age of Marconi

Timothy C. Campbell

15. Electronic Monuments

Gregory L. Ulmer

14. Lara Croft: Cyber Heroine

Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky

13. The Souls of Cyberfolk: Posthumanism as Vernacular Theory

Thomas Foster

12. Déjà Vu: Aberrations of Cultural Memory

Peter Krapp

11. Biomedia

Eugene Thacker

10. Avatar Bodies: A Tantra for Posthumanism

Ann Weinstone

9. Connected, or What It Means to Live in the Network Society

Steven Shaviro

8. Cognitive Fictions

Joseph Tabbi

7. Cybering Democracy: Public Space and the Internet

Diana Saco

6. Writings

Vilém Flusser

5. Bodies in Technology

Don Ihde

4. Cyberculture

Pierre Lévy

3. What’s the Matter with the Internet?

Mark Poster

2. High Techn–e: Art and Technology from the Machine Aesthetic to the Posthuman

R. L. Rutsky

1. Digital Sensations: Space, Identity, and Embodiment in Virtual Reality

Ken Hillis

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