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A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages.
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 2002-12-01
- Pages
- 256
- ISBN
- 9781859736951
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-10
1859736955
ISBN-13
9781859736951
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2301105
Product Key Features
Book Title
Bodies/Machines
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Intelligence (Ai) & Semantics, Sociology / General, History
Publication Year
2002
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Computers, Technology & Engineering, Social Science
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
13.3 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2002-007246
Reviews
'Where Bodies/Machines succeeds is in its efforts to complicate common misconceptions as to the centrality and scope of the mechanistic view of the human body as it has evolved over the past three centuries.'John Baily, Department of English, University of Melbourne, 'Where Bodies/Machines succeeds is in its efforts to complicate common misconceptions as to the centrality and scope of the mechanistic view of the human body as it has evolved over the past three centuries.' John Baily, Department of English, University of Melbourne
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
620.8/2
Table Of Content
List of Illustrations List of Contributors Acknowledgements 1 Introduction 2 'A Great and Difficult Thing': Understanding and Explaining the Human Machine in Restoration England Michael Hawkins 3 England and the Machinery of Reason, 1780 to 1830 William J. Ashworth 4 The Governor and the Telegraph: Mental Management in British Natural Philosophy Elizabeth Green Musselman 5 A Grand and Universal Panacea: Death, Resurrection and the Electric Chair Iwan Rhys Morus 6 'Instruments to Lay Hold of Spirits': Technologizing the Bodies of Victorian Spiritualism Richard Noakes 7 Spot Watching, Bodily Postures and the 'Practised Eye': the Material Practice of Instrument Reading in late Victorian Electrical Life Graeme Gooday 8 Bodies, Machines and Noise Jon Agar Select Bibliography Index
Synopsis
It is hard to believe that the pursuit of artificial intelligence is not a phenomenon of the twentieth century. For over three hundred years, the boundaries between bodies and machines the natural and the artificial, the animate and the inanimate have been passionately explored. These explorations, beginning in the seventeenth and eighteenth and increasing during the nineteenth century, have been all but forgotten, lost beneath the commotion of the modern day world. This book retrieves these lost histories, giving voice to the hopes, dreams, and fears of philosophers, medical practitioners, engineers, craftsmen and artisans who have all been fascinated by the interface between bodies and machines. The journey back in time unfolds with the mysterious advent of mechanical philosophies, which conceptualized the body and the surrounding world largely in terms of mechanistic interactions. These theories develop in intriguing directions and fuel experiments in such areas as material production and social punishment, spiritualism and mental health. From reanimating dead bodies with electricity, which led to the introduction of the electric chair, through to the use of machines to render hysterics and the insane fit for reintroduction into society, this book conveys the dark truths behind our relationship with machines. This book is not only an exceptional contribution to the history of technology but also to contemporary debates about humans and machines.
LC Classification Number
TA166.B618 2002
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