In McDonough's universe, the natural not only co-exists with the man made, the "unnatural"; each defines the other in an age when mechanical reproduction is the standard, not an event.
The whole work optimistically predicted a new age when man's mechanical inventions would supplant the Sun as the source of power.
Although Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle is set in an identifiable place and time period, the tale is mythologized by reaching back to an age when household chores were performed manually and without the aid of modern mechanical inventions.
RECORDED music has become so pervasive that it may be hard to imagine a quieter age when musical sounds were heard primarily at live performances and just beginning to be heard through mechanical means.
"In an age when every aspect of our lives is becoming more digitised, it's nice to revert to something more mechanical," says Greene, 29, whose 1980s Chicago-inspired house tracks have been attracting growing recognition on the dance music scene "If you only listen to music digitally, you're so far abstracted from it".
In an age when illegal downloading has decimated profits in the entertainment industry, live events have become a vital source of revenue; the O2 has hosted music, sport, comedy, Star Wars spinoffs and giant mechanical dinosaurs.
Most people think of photography as a secular enterprise, born of a mechanical age.
Does Hausmann fear or welcome the disappearance of the Geist in a new mechanical age?
Age when married: He: 23, She: 31.
The pictures were taken with an obsolete nineteen-forties Rolleiflex camera, which Leonard has described as "left over from the mechanical age," a nod to Walter Benjamin's Frankfurt School classic, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction".
