The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor / / Anson Rabinbach.
The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor traces the shift from the eighteenth-century concept of man as machine to the late twentieth-century notion of digital organisms. Step by step-from Jacques de Vaucanson and his Digesting Duck, through Karl Marx's Capital, Hermann von Helmholtz's social t...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Forms of Living
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. From Mimetic Machines to Digital Organisms
- 2. Social Energeticism in Fin-de-Siècle Eu rope
- 3. Social Knowledge and the Politics of Industrial Accidents
- 4. Neurasthenia and Modernity
- 5. Psychotechnics and Politics in Weimar Germany
- 6. The Aesthetics of Production in the Third Reich
- 7. Metaphors of the Machine in the Post-Fordist Era
- Notes
- Index