Automatism and Creative Acts in the Age of New Psychology

ISBN-13: 9781108450409 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 280 str.

Linda M. Austin (Oklahoma State University)

Opis

Linda M. Austin explores the ways in which scientific questions about the relation between human beings and automata, raised by the 'new psychology' of the late nineteenth century, forced the re-examination of creativity in literature, photography, ballet, and high-level mental activities.

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.