1. Automatic Man: A Genealogy -- 2. Vibrant Bodies, Automatic Minds: Vitalism, D.H. Lawrence, and the Politics of Spontaneity -- 3. Public Reflex: Wyndham Lewis, Public Relations, and the Invisible Government -- 4. Pavlovian Nationalism: Rebecca West's Reflex Communities -- 5. Higher Degrees of Automaticity: Habitus, Samuel Beckett, and Late Modernism
Summary
Analyzing such thinking through a neglected archive about embodiment and reflex reveals modernists responding to the historically novel conditions of political life in the twentieth century--conditions that have become entrenched in the politics of our own century
