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The Making of Incarnation
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2637365The Making of Incarnationhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-making-of-incarnation-9780593319888/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3402391/ba048564-b5ae-46b2-b5cd-327c3b9419a2.jpg?v=638385323428700000157174MXNKnopf Doubleday Publishing GroupInStock/Ebooks/<p><strong>From the author of <em>Remainder,</em> and two novels short-listed for the Booker Prize, <em>C,</em> and <em>Satin Island,</em> a widescreen odyssey through the medical labs, computer graphics studios, military research centers, and other dark zones where the frontiers of potentialto cure, kill, understand or entertainare constantly tested and refined.</strong></p><p><em>Bodies in motion. Birds, bees and bobsleighs. What is the force that moves the sun and other stars? Wheres our fucking airplane? Whats inside Box 808, and why does everybody want it?</em></p><p>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. But 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?</p><p>An international hunt begins for the one box missing from her records, and we follow contemporary motion-capture consultant Mark Phocan, as well as his collaborators and shadowy antagonists, across geopolitical fault lines and through strata of personal and collective history. Meanwhile, work is under way on the blockbuster movie <em>Incarnation,</em> an epic space tragedy.</p><p>As McCarthy peers through the screen, or veil, of technological modernity to reveal the underlying symbolic structures of human experience, <em>The Making of Incarnation</em> weaves a set of stories one inside the other, rings within rings, a perpetual motion machine.</p>...2573189The Making of Incarnation157174https://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-making-of-incarnation-9780593319888/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3402391/ba048564-b5ae-46b2-b5cd-327c3b9419a2.jpg?v=638385323428700000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20219780593319888_W3siaWQiOiI1YTEzYWVkZC1iOWYwLTRhZjQtOWFiNC0xYWRhOWMxNjc4OTYiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjE2MywiZGlzY291bnQiOjE2LCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjE0NywiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjUtMDItMDVUMDc6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9780593319888_<p><strong>From the author of <em>Remainder,</em> and two novels short-listed for the Booker Prize, <em>C,</em> and <em>Satin Island,</em> a widescreen odyssey through the medical labs, computer graphics studios, military research centers, and other dark zones where the frontiers of potentialto cure, kill, understand or entertainare constantly tested and refined.</strong></p><p><em>Bodies in motion. Birds, bees and bobsleighs. What is the force that moves the sun and other stars? Wheres our fucking airplane? Whats inside Box 808, and why does everybody want it?</em></p><p>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. But 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?</p><p>An international hunt begins for the one box missing from her records, and we follow contemporary motion-capture consultant Mark Phocan, as well as his collaborators and shadowy antagonists, across geopolitical fault lines and through strata of personal and collective history. Meanwhile, work is under way on the blockbuster movie <em>Incarnation,</em> an epic space tragedy.</p><p>As McCarthy peers through the screen, or veil, of technological modernity to reveal the underlying symbolic structures of human experience, <em>The Making of Incarnation</em> weaves a set of stories one inside the other, rings within rings, a perpetual motion machine.</p>...9780593319888_Knopf Doubleday Publishing Grouplibro_electonico_ead68cfc-7fd7-30ef-8470-cbe5d58d55c7_9780593319888;9780593319888_9780593319888Tom McCarthyInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/RandomHouse-epub-b4584912-3690-42f8-81e7-930899726368.epub2021-11-02T00:00:00+00:00Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group