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Sublime Dreams of Living Machines
Harvard University Press, 2010 eISBN: 978-0-674-05941-2 | Cloth: 978-0-674-04935-2 Library of Congress Classification TJ211.15.K36 2010 Dewey Decimal Classification 629.892094
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Kang’s central contention is that the automaton, a machine that can move by itself (better known today as the robot), is one of the essential ideas with which people in the West have pondered the very nature of humanity itself. In Kang’s telling, automata are mirrors of the ideas, fears, and anxieties of a given era, in that attitudes towards the machines have always been indicative of a moment’s zeitgeist. The book is historically sweeping, but not comprehensive; the focus is on what Kang takes to be key changes in the representations of and responses to automata. His main interest is on how Europeans in different periods of the past thought about the very notion of a self-moving machine that acted as if it were alive and how they used it for various symbolic and intellectual purposes. See other books on: Europe | Popular culture | Popular works | Robotics | Science See other titles from Harvard University Press |
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Sublime Dreams of Living Machines
ABOUT THIS BOOK | TOC
Harvard University Press, 2010
eISBN: 978-0-674-05941-2
Cloth: 978-0-674-04935-2
eISBN: 978-0-674-05941-2
Cloth: 978-0-674-04935-2
Kang’s central contention is that the automaton, a machine that can move by itself (better known today as the robot), is one of the essential ideas with which people in the West have pondered the very nature of humanity itself. In Kang’s telling, automata are mirrors of the ideas, fears, and anxieties of a given era, in that attitudes towards the machines have always been indicative of a moment’s zeitgeist. The book is historically sweeping, but not comprehensive; the focus is on what Kang takes to be key changes in the representations of and responses to automata. His main interest is on how Europeans in different periods of the past thought about the very notion of a self-moving machine that acted as if it were alive and how they used it for various symbolic and intellectual purposes.
ABOUT THIS BOOK | TOC
