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The Enlightenment Cyborg : A History of Communications and Control in the Human Machine, 1660-1830 /
For many cultural theorists, the concept of the cyborg - an organism controlled by mechanic processes - is firmly rooted in the post-modern, post-industrial, post-Enlightenment, post-nature, post-gender, or post-human culture of the late twentieth century. Allison Muri argues, however, that there is...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Buffalo, N.Y. :
University of Toronto Press,
2007.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- The Problem of �Modernity� and Moralizing in Postmodern Cyborg Discourse
- The Problem of Descartes, Dualism, and �Enlightenment�: Subjectivities in Cyborg Discourse
- A New Schema for Cyborg Theory
- The Problem of Definition
- The Enlightenment Cyborg
- 2 Matter, Mechanism, and the Soul
- Defining the Cyborg: Molecules, Electrons, and Spirit
- Defining the Man-Machine I: Mechanicks and Matter
- Defining the Man-Machine II: From Aether to Ethernet?
- 3 Some Contexts for Human Machines and the Body Politics: Early Modern / Postmodern Government and FeedbackContext 1: The Nervous System and Machines for Communicating
- Context 2: Communications and Control in the Cyborg
- Context 3: Communications and Control in the Man-Machine
- Context 4: Clockwork versus Feedback in Human Machines
- 4 The Man-Machine: Communications, Circulations, and Commerce
- Thomas Willis�s Nervous Government
- Communications and the Sovereignty of the Soul in The Anatomy of the Brain
- The Extension of the Soul in Two Discourses Concerning the Soul of BrutesLiterary Communications: Materialism and the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit
- The Man-Machine and Intellectual Electricity
- 5 The Woman-Machine: Techno-lust and Techno-reproduction
- The Female Cyborg in Twentieth-century Fiction and Film, or, Why Do Cyborgs Need Boobs?
- Cyborg Reproductive Technologies in the Twentieth Century
- Female Cyborg Origin Stories
- Where�s the Woman-Machine?
- Female Vanity and Mechanick Art
- Domestic Machines?
- Sex Machines: The Mechanical Operation of the SlitReproductive Machines: Knowledge, �Geometrical Certainty, � and the Automatic Womb
- 6 Cyborg Conceptions: Bodies, Texts, and the Future of Human Spirit
- Virtually Human: The Electronic Page, the Archived Body, and Human Identity
- Some Conceptual Frameworks: The Electronic Page and the Book of Life
- The Electronic Page and Human Spirit
- The Archived Body
- Of Books and Spirit
- Concluding Remarks
- Notes
- References
- Illustration Credits
- Index
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- Illustrations