Embodiment and mechanisation : reciprocal understandings of body and machine from the Renaissance to the present / by Daniel Black.

Author
Black, Daniel (Daniel Ariad) [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, Vermont : Ashgate, 2014.
  • ©2014
Description
1 online resource (220 p.)

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This book explores the interaction between mechanistic beliefs about human bodies and the successive technologies that have established and illustrated these beliefs. Drawing upon newer perspectives on technology and embodied human thought it provides a position from which widely held assumptions about our relationship with technology can be understood and questioned, by both showing how these presuppositions have emerged and developed, and examining the extent to which they are dependent upon our grasp of specific technologies.
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Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of description
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Language note
English
Contents
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Preface; Introduction; 1 How to Look at Bodies; 2 Machina Carnis; 3 Android Dreams; 4 Informateriality; 5 An Aesthetics of the Invisible; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
ISBN
  • 1-315-57915-4
  • 1-4724-1545-0
  • 1-317-14487-2
  • 1-4724-1544-2
OCLC
874029392
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