Just for the fun of it, I pulled up Atomica on enantiodromic, and found the most interesting essay!
http://www.well.com/~demarini/edison.html

He starts off by talking about Edison and the light bulb, and goes on into the invention of the phonograph. I'll put a couple of quotes: It is often the case that a new medium's first major flaw or contradiction is destined to become its dominant metaphor. The disembodying upside-downness of Della Porta's camera obscura, the shadows created by light falling on Niepce's photographic emulsion producing a "negative" image, the montage necessitated by the frailty and shortness of early celluloid film - these have become the mechanophors which convey the richness and complexity of our experience. ... Enantiodromic reversal at the atomic level can be used to symbolize opposing primal forces and may serve to mythicize otherwise commonplace occurrences.
If you go to this site and click Back*, you'll get a page that includes this guy's (Paul DeMarinis) bio. Very interesting stuff.

*Uh-oh--when I tested my link, it didn't give a Back button, so here's the link to the bio. page:
http://www.well.com/~demarini/. If you go here to find the piece, click on Writings, then on the title which is: "Essay in Lieu of a Sonata (The Edison Effect)".