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, VT : Ashgate Publishing, [2014]
Description
x, 209 pages ; 24 cm

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Subject(s)
Summary note
Drawing on philosophical, neurological and cultural answers to the question of what constitutes a body, this book explores the interaction between mechanistic beliefs about human bodies and the successive technologies that have established and illustrated these beliefs. At the same time, it draws upon newer perspectives on technology and embodied human thought in order to highlight the limitations and inadequacies of such beliefs and suggest alternative perspectives.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Action note
Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)
Contents
  • How to look at bodies
  • Machina carnis
  • Android dreams
  • Informateriality
  • An aesthetics of the invisible
  • Conclusion.
ISBN
  • 9781472415431 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 1472415434 (hardback : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2013038852
OCLC
861274004
RCP
H - S
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