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Mad scientist, impossible human : an essay in generative anthropology /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Alemán |
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Aurora, Colorado :
The Davies Group, Publishers,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Table of contents
- Chapter One The Frankenstein Myth, Scientism, and Generative Anthropology
- Four Stories, One Formula
- Defending the Mad Scientist Plays God Formula
- Resisting Victimary Attitudes
- More Criteria for Counting as a Story that Builds Up the Frankenstein Myth
- Scientism as the Reduction of Anthropology to Biology
- Studying to Say Almost Nothing of the Origin of Language
- On That Which Necessarily Must Have Happened Accidentally
- The Exchange of Abortive Gestures of Appropriation
- Experience of the Object-as-Sacred: Revelation without CognitionExperience of the Object-as-Esthetic: Imaginary Possession, Recognized Inviolability (To and Fro)
- The Object-as- Cosmological: From Good (Minimal) Scienceto Scientism
- Exchangeability and Desacralization
- Tortured Matter, Multiple Errors
- Chapter Two Mary Shelley�s Frankenstein (1818): Experiment and Irreversibility
- Two Ways of Approaching the Book and Its Author
- Victor�s Early Career: Discovery and Experiment
- Irreversible Experiment and the Event-Structure ofScientific Revelation
- The Mock-Creation Scene of Failed IntegrationThe Vain Scientist as Pseudo-Savior
- A Concluding Retrospective
- Chapter Three Allegories of Playing God in The Island of Dr. Moreau
- H. G. Wells and Biological Thinking
- Moreau Playing the God of Punctualist Creation Theology
- Moreau Playing the Gradualist “God� of Liberal Theology
- Moreau as One Who Believes in Scientific Species-making (The Atheist Plays God)
- The Island of Mr. Prendick
- On the Mercy-killing of the Leopard Man
- Hypnotism and the Unnatural Language of the Beast People
- Prendick�s FarewellChapter Four Karel Capek�s R.U.R. (Rossum�s Universal Robots)Mechanical Not Erotic
- R.U.R. as Rebellious Heir to Frankenstein and Moreau
- To Believe in an Economy of Mechanical Value
- Android Automata and the Comedy of Baffled Activism
- Altered Androids and Mechanical Resentment Mobilized
- Committee Robots and Primary Humanoids
- Capek�s Originary Script and the Popularity of Robots
- Chapter Five Blade Runner: Minimizing the Difference of the Impossible Human
- Blade Runner as Postmodern Frankenstein: Contesting the Nondifference ThesisCorporate Science and Postmodern Paranoia: Tyrell as Scapegoat
- Falling in Love with the Impossible Human
- Victimary Thinking and the Human/Replicant Boundary
- On the Vanity of Eldon Tyrell
- Batty�s Enigmatic Gesture of Rescue
- On the Dying Lines of Roy Batty
- Chapter Six Afterword: Sharing the Human Scene
- Inequality and Mad Science: Imagining a Mind-Materializer
- Sharing Our Origin in Language
- Endnotes
- Notes to 1 / Minimal Anthropology