Unruly technics in the French literary avant-garde: technological writings of the Third Republic and their afterlives in contemporary thought by Chalmers, M

“…The place of those early literary figures in this lineage has never before been traced, yet they are crucial to understanding why we think the way we do, and to identifying what our contemporary modes of thought overlook, as we face a moment of rapid technological change. In nine linked chapters, this thesis shows how these writers and thinkers are united by a common concern with technics as a mode of relation to self, other, and world, through which change happens and things come into being. …”