Literature, Technology, and Modernity, 1860-2000

ISBN-13: 9780521123846 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 172 str.

Nicholas Daly

Opis

Writing for scholars of modernism, literature, and film, Nicholas Daly considers the way human/machine encounters have been imagined from the 1860s on, arguing that such scenes dramatize the modernization of subjectivity. Although modernity assumes that there is a difference between people and machines, a consequence of this belief has been a recurring fantasy about the erasure of that difference. The central scenario in this fantasy is the "crash," or collision, sometimes literal, sometimes metaphorical.