Androids and Intelligent Networks in Early Modern Literature and Culture: Artificial Slaves

ISBN-13: 9780415631211 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 222 str.

Kevin Lagrandeur

Opis

This text explores the creation and use of artificially made humanoid servants and servant networks by fictional and non-fictional scientists of the early modern period.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Intelligent Tools/Rebellious Agents Part I: In Our Physical Image: Bodies, Body Parts, and Instruments 2. Real Human Automata from the Pre-Empirical Era 3. Whole Bodies: Alchemy, Cabala, and the Embodiment of Force 4. Body Parts: Talking Brass Heads, Dangerous Knowledge, and Robert Greene’s Plays Part II: In Our Operative Image: The Networked Servant Foreshadowed 5. Prospero’s Ethereal Prosthesis 6. Doctor Faustus: Losing Control of the Apparatus 7. Points of Contact

O autorze

Kevin LaGrandeur is Associate Professor of English at the New York Institute of Technology, US.