عنوان

Sublime dreams of living machines :

شابک

0674049357

شابک

9780674049352

شماره

b526958

عنوان اصلي

Sublime dreams of living machines :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

the automaton in the European imagination /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Minsoo Kang

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Cambridge, Mass. :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Harvard University Press,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2011

نام خاص و کميت اثر

x, 374 pages :

ساير جزييات

illustrations ;

ابعاد

25 cm

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references and index

متن يادداشت

The power of the automaton -- The talking head and the list of wonders -- The man-machine in the world-machine, 1637-1748 -- From the man-machine to the automaton-man, 1748-1793 -- The uncanny automaton, 1789-1833 -- The living machines of the industrial age, 1833-1914 -- The revolt of the robots, 1914-1935

بدون عنوان

0

متن يادداشت

From the dawn of European civilization to the twentieth century, the automaton--better known today as the robot--has captured the Western imagination and provided a vital lens into the nature of humanity. Historian Minsoo Kang argues that to properly understand the human-as-machine and the human-as-fundamentally-different-from-machine, we must trace the origins of these ideas and examine how they were transformed by intellectual, cultural, and artistic appearances of the automaton throughout the history of the West. Kang tracks the first appearance of the automaton in ancient myths through the medieval and Renaissance periods, marks the proliferation of the automaton as a central intellectual concept in the Scientific Revolution and the subsequent backlash during the Enlightenment, and details appearances in Romantic literature and the introduction of the living machine in the Industrial Age. He concludes with a reflection on the destructive confrontation between humanity and machinery in the modern era and the reverberations of the humanity-machinery theme today. Sublime Dreams of Living Machines is an ambitious historical exploration and, at heart, an attempt to fully elucidate the rich and varied ways we have utilized our most uncanny creations to explore essential questions about ourselves. --Book Jacket

موضوع مستند نشده

Popular culture-- Europe-- History

موضوع مستند نشده

Robotics-- Europe-- History

موضوع مستند نشده

Robotics, Popular works

موضوع مستند نشده

Robots in art-- History

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Kang, Minsoo

تاريخ عمليات

20121117000000.0

قواعد فهرست نويسي ( بخش توصيفي )

rda

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y