Opis
Written in the first years of the 21st century, this book contains studies in the paradoxical American bordeland, where nature has become artificial, and human production can be understood as natural. Thematic range covers American literature in the 19th and 20th centuries, with interdisciplinary studies in modernist dance, sociology of aging, landscape art, philosophy of history in the 2oth century, physics of the 1920s, and cybernetics in the 1950s.