The Enlightenment Cyborg : : A History of Communications and Control in the Human Machine, 1660-1830 / / Allison Muri.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Matter, Mechanism, and the Soul
- 3. Some Contexts for Human Machines and the Body Politic: Early Modern / Postmodern Government and Feedback
- 4. The Man-Machine: Communications, Circulations, and Commerce
- 5. The Woman-Machine: Techno-lust and Techno-reproduction
- 6. Cyborg Conceptions: Bodies, Texts, and the Future of Human Spirit
- Notes
- References
- Illustration Credits
- Index