"mechanical repetition" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase to describe a situation or process that does not involve much thinking, creativity, or deep understanding, but instead involves a lot of repetition and rote learning. For example: "The student quickly became bored with the class due to the teacher's reliance on mechanical repetition."
Mechanical repetition is usually what you get in Warhol.
"And yet neither can you say it's explainable as purely mechanical repetition".
The delivery of these images, in contrapuntal sequence on the four screens, relates rhythmically to Minimalist music and formally to Minimalist sculpture, with its stress on mechanical repetition.
Optimistically, Mr Kissinger insists that "were history confined to the mechanical repetition of the past, no transformation would ever have occurred".
I could mention, too, a concern for musical resources used in a way that fits into my expressive intention...and a desire to avoid mechanical repetition or other patterns that seem vacuous.
Batoni, then Rome's finest history painter, was faulted by compatriots for neglecting nobler aims and devoting so much time to portraits, and Antonio Canaletto's gifts as a view painter became blunted by the mechanical repetition demanded of him by British visitors.
Both the tumultuous wedding scene and the song of the little foxes are undercut by somewhat mechanical repetitions of images.
In one of his large ensemble sets, there could be brass choirs, Cuban rhythm, fuguelike passages, talking, whistling, mechanical repetitions over a groove, and bits of aerated rock.
On stage, the accelerated movements, the mechanical repetitions, the way the women seem to push away from and pull towards their partners both at once – all say something about modern neuroses, the contradictions of modern life, as well as its speed, but you get the point very quickly and there's still an hour to go.
His work, he says, stems from the convergence of two lines of research: the concept of difference without negation, and the concept of repetition, in which physical and mechanical repetitions are masks for a hidden differential that is disguised and displaced.
In the age of mechanical reproduction, repetition is harder than you think.
