A stroll by a literary flâneur through mechanical protagonists.

Reading note

Fantastic Machines

by Antonio Castronuovo — read in February 2026

Manual of weirdness and electromechanical fantasies.

A stroll by a literary flâneur through mechanical protagonists: robots, androids, cyborgs, puppets.

For another way of looking at machines and art, there's Il profilo del Dada.