Some chapters in the book ‘Modernism and the Machinery of Madness. Psychosis, Technology, and Narrative Worlds‘ by Andrew Gaedtke could be of interest to h-madness readers. The book was published in 2017 by Cambridge University Press.

The abstract reads: “Modernism and the Machinery of Madness demonstrates the emergence of a technological form of paranoia within modernist culture which transformed much of the period’s experimental fiction. Gaedtke argues that the works of writers such as Samuel Beckett, Anna Kavan, Wyndham Lewis, Mina Loy, Evelyn Waugh, and others respond to the collapse of categorical distinctions between human and machine. Modern British and Irish novels represent a convergence between technological models of the mind and new media that were often regarded as ‘thought-influencing machines’. Gaedtke shows that this literary paranoia comes into new focus when read in light of twentieth-century memoirs of mental illness. By thinking across the discourses of experimental fiction, mental illness, psychiatry, cognitive science, and philosophy of mind, this book shows the historical and conceptual sources of this confusion as well as the narrative responses. This book contributes to the fields of modernist studies, disability studies, and medical humanities”.

Recently the website Dósis published a review, written by Burcu Alkan, about this book. You can find the review here. Dósis is an online blog and magazine dedicated to exploring the intersection of medical humanities and social justice.