Genesis redux : essays in the history and philosophy of artificial life / edited by Jessica Riskin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Riskin, Jessica.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artificial life.

Physical Description:

xv, 389 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Contents:

1 Introduction: The Sistine Gap / Jessica Riskin 1

1 Connections

2 The Imitation of Life in Ancient Greek Philosophy / Sylvia Berryman 35

3 The Devil as Automaton: Giovanni Fontana and the Meanings of a Fifteenth-Century Machine / Anthony Grafton 46

4 Infinite Gesture: Automata and the Emotions in Descartes and Shakespeare / Scott Maisano 63

5 Abstracting from the Soul: The Mechanics of Locomotion / Dennis Des Chene 85

6 The Anatomy of Artificial Life: An Eighteenth-Century Perspective / Joan B. Landes 96

2 Emergence

7 The Homunculus and the Mandrake: Art Aiding Nature versus Art Faking Nature / William R. Newman 119

8 Sex Ratio Theory, Ancient and Modern: An Eighteenth-Century Debate about Intelligent Design and the Development of Models in Evolutionary Biology / Elliott Sober 131

9 The Gender of Automata in Victorian Britain / M. Norton Wise 163

10 Techno-Humanism: Requiem for the Cyborg / Timothy Lenoir 196

11 Nanobots and Nanotubes: Two Alternative Biomimetic Paradigms of Nanotechnology / Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent 221

12 Creating Insight: Gestalt Theory and the Early Computer / David Bates 237

3 Interactions

13 Perpetual Devotion: A Sixteenth-Century Machine That Prays / Elizabeth King 263

14 Motions and Passions: Music-Playing Women Automata and the Culture of Affect in Late Eighteenth-Century Germany / Adelheid Voskuhl 293

15 An Archaeology of Artificial Life, Underwater / Stefan Helmreich 321

16 Booting Up Baby / Evelyn Fox Keller 334

17 Body Language: Lessons from the Near-Human / Justine Cassell 346.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780226720807

0226720802

9780226720814

0226720810

OCLC:

80917572

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