The making of incarnation
McCarthy, Tom, 1969 May 22-2021
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Bodies in motion. Birds, bees and bobsleighs. What is the force that moves the sun and other stars? What's inside Box 808, and why does everybody want it? 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, as well as his collaborators and shadowy antagonists, across geo-political fault lines and experimental zones: medical labs, CGI studios, military research centres.
Main title:
The making of incarnation / Tom McCarthy.
Author:
McCarthy, Tom, 1969 May 22-, author
Imprint:
London : Jonathan Cape, 2021.
Collation:
336 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781787333291 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
823.92
Language:
English
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BRN:
2532392
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