... relevant—in the emergence of high tech out of modernist technological aesthetics. Throughout the book, in fact, the issue of how these changes in the conception of technology and the aesthetic took ... practitioner of the black arts. Thus, the pri-mal scene of Kantian, romantic aesthetics would be precisely this birth of the machine, the bringing to life of technology and technique. The re-pression of ... relationship to Introduction 3Electronic MediationsKatherine Hayles, Mark Poster, and Samuel Weber, series editorsVolume 2. High Techne : Art and Technology from the Machine Aesthetic to the Posthuman R....