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Androids and Intelligent Networks in Early Modern Literature and Culture : Artificial Slaves.
This book explores the creation and use of artificially made humanoid servants and servant networks by fictional and non-fictional scientists of the early modern period. Beginning with an investigation of the roots of artificial servants, humanoids, and automata from earlier times, LaGrandeur traces...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Colección: | Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Androids and Intelligent Networks in Early Modern Literature and Culture: Artificial Slaves; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Artificial Slaves-Intelligent Tools/Rebellious Agents; Part I Bodies, Body Parts, and Instruments; 2 Real Human Automata from the Pre-Empirical Era; 3 Whole Bodies: Alchemy, Cabala, and the Embodiment of Force; 4 Body Parts: Talking Brass Heads, Dangerous Knowledge, and Robert Greene's Plays; Part II In Our Operative Image: The Servant Network; 5 Prospero's Ethereal Prosthesis.
- 6 Doctor Faustus: Losing Control of the Servant Network7 Points of Contact between Artifi cial Servants of Yesterday and Today; Notes; Bibliography; Index.