TY  - BOOK
AU  - McCarthy,Tom
TI  - The making of Incarnation: a novel 
SN  - 9780593319871
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York
PB  - Alfred A. Knopf
KW  - Gilbreth, Lillian Moller,
KW  - Human mechanics
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Intellectual property
KW  - Copyright
KW  - Physicists
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - Production and direction
KW  - Biographical fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Science fiction
N1  - Subtitle from book jacket
N2  - 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. But 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 geopolitical fault lines and through strata of personal and collective history. Meanwhile, work is under way on the blockbuster movie Incarnation, an epic space tragedy. As McCarthy peers through the screen, or veil, of technological modernity to reveal the underlying symbolic structures of human experience, "The Making of Incarnation" weaves a set of stories one inside the other, rings within rings, a perpetual motion machine
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