Book
1 of 1 Copy Available
- CENTRAL: First Floor Collection
The making of Incarnation
Call Number
- FICTION MCCA (CEN)
Edition
First United States edition.
Publication Information
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
Physical Description
xvii, 309 pages ; 25 cm
Summary
"Deep within the archives of time-and-motion pioneer Lillian Gilbreth lies a secret. Famous for producing solid light-tracks that captured the path of workers' movements, Gilbreth helped birth the era of mass observation and big data. Did she also, as her broken correspondence with a young Soviet physicist suggests, discover in her final days a 'perfect' movement, one that would 'change everything?' An international hunt begins for the one box missing from her records, and we follow contemporary motion-capture consultant Mark Phocan across geo-political fault lines and experimental zones: places where the frontiers of potential - to cure, kill, understand or entertain - are constantly tested and refined. And all the while, work is underway on the blockbuster film Incarnation, an epic space tragedy. Audacious and mesmeric, The Making of Incarnation weaves a set of stories one inside the other, rings within rings, a perpetual-motion machine. Tom McCarthy peers through the screen, or veil, of technological modernity to reveal the underlying historical and symbolic structures of human experience."--Goodreads.com.
Notes
"This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Title page verso.