Alice Dailey
How to Do Things with Dead People: History, Technology, and Temporality from Shakespeare to Warhol
How to Do Things with Dead People: History, Technology, and Temporality from Shakespeare to Warhol
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How to Do Things with Dead People explores how humans use technology to represent and relate to the dead, challenging conventional assumptions about art and historical periodization. It composes a searching exploration of how the living use the dead to think back and look forward, rule, love, wish, and create.
Format: Hardback
Length: 264 pages
Publication date: 14 June 2022
Publisher: Cornell University Press
How to Do Things with Dead People delves into the intricate realm of human endeavors to represent and interact with the deceased. Alice Dailey, the scholar at the forefront of this field, focuses her attention on Shakespeare's English history plays, viewing them as remarkable reproductive mechanisms that bring forth living replicas of historical figures from the past and subsequently re-kill them. By approaching these plays through this lens, Dailey unveils their profound connection with a diverse array of technologies, spanning across different historical periods, designed for the production, reproduction, and engagement with deceased entities. These technologies encompass literary doppelgängers, photography, ventriloquist puppetry, X-ray imaging, glitch art, capital punishment machines, and cloning, among others.
By placing Shakespeare's historical drama within this intermedial dialogue, Dailey boldly challenges conventional notions of the artistic context and challenges fundamental models of linear temporality that have shaped our understanding of historical periodization and teleological order. Drawing from a diverse range of theories, images, and machines that transcend temporal boundaries and media, Dailey conducts a profound exploration into how the living utilize the dead to reflect upon the past, gaze into the future, exercise power, express love, make wishes, and engage in creative endeavors. Through her meticulous research and innovative approach, How to Do Things with Dead People offers a thought-provoking and groundbreaking exploration of the complex and multifaceted relationships between the living and the dead, shedding light on the enduring human fascination with mortality and the endless possibilities for meaningful engagement with the past.
Weight: 28g
Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781501763656
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