Read/View:
– The Linotype Film Website: http://www.linotypefilm.com/; Available to borrow from the Hagerty Library Film Reserves.
– Roy W. Howard, “Newspaper Mass Production,” The North American Review, Vol. 225, No. 842 (Apr., 1928), pp. 420-424.
– John J. Fry, “‘Good Farming-Clear Thinking-Right Living’”: Midwestern Farm Newspapers, Social Reform, and Rural Readers in the Early Twentieth Century,” Agricultural History, Vol. 78, No. 1
(Winter, 2004), pp. 34-49.

Then discuss: A) First read Howard column (1928), and then Fry’s article (2004). In comparing the two stories discuss how we can explain their different views of the dangers of mass-production and
centralization of the newspapers. B) How does this relate to the story of the Linotype? C) In what ways does this reflect the history of Technology and Systems as presented in my lecture and Misa’s
chapter?
Please read: White, Anthony. (2015). “Italian futurism 1909-1944: Reconstructing the Universe/Italian futurism 1909-1944,” The Art Bulletin, 97(1), 104-107; Available in the Readings Reserves
Folder.

And explore the website: Italian Futurism 1909-1944: Reconstructing the Universe; An online exhibit at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, February 21-September 1, 2014; Available at:
http://exhibitions.guggenheim.org/futurism/

Then discuss: You can approach this assignment in a few different ways. You might choose to look through the different pages (Introduction, Themes, Timeline . . . ) and then watch the Video
(http://exhibitions.guggenheim.org/futurism/video/) or start with the video and then go to the works of art. After doing this describe some part of this exhibit (I especially like the painting
Speeding Train by Ivo Pannaggi (1922)) and discuss how it reflects the theme of Technological Fundamentalism from lecture and Misa.