A tribute owed to the pinball machine and a journey into its vintage world.

A motorcycle? An electric billiard table? A dream machine? A corrupter of young souls?

No matter what reasonable questions or critical inquiries one may pose, there will always be space (and time) for a game of pinball, even if it is now hard to find or simply an exhibit in a specialized museum.

The texts collected in this volume explore the complexity, mythology, and phantasmagoria of this quintessential automaton of modernity, which continues to captivate us to this day.

Texts:
Dennis Göttel, Friedrich Kittler, Friedrich Wolfram Heubach, Paolo Virno, Kostas T. Kalfopoulos, Kostas Katsapis, Lefteris Xanthopoulos, Hilda Papadimitriou