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New romantic cyborgs : romanticism, information technology, and the end of the machine / Mark Coeckelbergh.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Coeckelbergh, Mark, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Technology--Philosophy.
- Technology.
- Human-machine systems--Philosophy.
- Human-machine systems.
- Information technology--Philosophy.
- Information technology.
- Cyborgs--Philosophy.
- Cyborgs.
- Romanticism.
- Philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (320 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- An account of the complex relationship between technology and romanticism that links nineteenth-century monsters, automata, and mesmerism with twenty-first-century technology's magic devices and romantic cyborgs.
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction: The Question Concerning Technology and Romanticism 1
- I Romanticism against the Machine 19
- 2 Romanticism 21
- 3 Romanticism against the Machine? 71
- II Romanticism with the Machine 95
- 4 Romanticism with the Machine (1): From Frankenstein's Monster to Hippie Computing 97
- 5 Romanticism with the Machine (2): Cyberromanticism, Uncanny Robots, Romantic Cyborgs, and Spooky Science 135
- III Beyond Romanticism? Beyond the Machine? 209
- 6 Criticisms of Romanticism and of the End-of-the-Machine Vision 211
- 7 Beyond Romanticism and beyond Modernity: Toward the (Real) End of the Machine? 253.
- Notes:
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 9780262343084
- 0262343088
- OCLC:
- 978294954
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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