Automatism and Creative Acts in the Age of New Psychology

ISBN-13: 9781108428552 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 280 str.

Linda M. Austin

Opis

Shows how the scientific question, 'Are we automata?', was addressed in late nineteenth-century literature and the arts.

Spis treści

Introduction: the nineteenth-century debate over human automatisms; Part I. Automata-Phobia: 1. J. S. Mill: genius-automaton; 2. Automatic aesthetics and the shame of tourism; Part II. Technologies of the Automatic: Process and Movement: 3. Photography's automatisms; 4. Automatic writing and physiologies of creativity; 5. The automata ballets.