Embodiment and Mechanisation: Reciprocal Understandings of Body and Machine from the Renaissance to the Present

ISBN-13: 9781138267244 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 220 str.

Daniel Black

Opis

This book explores the interaction between mechanistic beliefs about human bodies and the successive technologies that have established and illustrated these beliefs. Drawing upon newer perspectives on technology and embodied human thought it provides a position from which widely held assumptions about our relationship with technology can be understood and questioned, by both showing how these presuppositions have emerged and developed, and examining the extent to which they are dependent upon our grasp of specific technologies.

Recenzje

’Embodiment and Mechanisation is an exciting and impressive exploration of the matter of mechanistic thought, and one that makes a profound contribution to contemporary theories of embodiment and the intellectual histories that shape them. Black’s analysis of the complex and shifting body-machine relationship is insightful, richly variegated, and precise in its execution. From dissection to information processing, automata to robotics, steam engines to artificial intelligence, Embodiment and Mechanisation is a veritable tour de force. Try as I might, I couldn’t put it down.’ Nikki Sullivan, Macquarie University, Australia

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter 1 How to Look at Bodies; Chapter 2 Machina Carnis; Chapter 3 Android Dreams; Chapter 4 Informateriality; Chapter 5 An Aesthetics of the Invisible; Conclusion;

O autorze

Daniel Black is Lecturer in Communications and Media Studies at Monash University, Australia and co-editor of Complicated Currents: Media Flows, Soft Power and East Asia. He has published numerous book chapters and articles investigating our embodied relationship with technology, including publication in journals such as Body & Society and Theory, Culture & Society.