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Embodiment and mechanisation : reciprocal understandings of body and machine from the Renaissance to the present / by Daniel Black.

Title
Embodiment and mechanisation : reciprocal understandings of body and machine from the Renaissance to the present / by Daniel Black.
Author
Black, Daniel (Daniel Ariad)
Publication
Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Publishing, [2014]

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Description
x, 209 pages; 24 cm
Summary
Drawing on philosophical, neurological and cultural answers to the question of what constitutes a body, this book explores the interaction between mechanistic beliefs about human bodies and the successive technologies that have established and illustrated these beliefs. At the same time, it draws upon newer perspectives on technology and embodied human thought in order to highlight the limitations and inadequacies of such beliefs and suggest alternative perspectives.
Subject
  • History, Early Modern 1451-1600
  • History, Modern 1601-
  • Human Body
  • Human body > History
  • Human body and technology > History
  • Human mechanics > History
  • Technology > history
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
How to look at bodies -- Machina carnis -- Android dreams -- Informateriality -- An aesthetics of the invisible -- Conclusion.
ISBN
  • 9781472415431 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 1472415434 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 9781472415455 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
  • 9781472415448 (epub) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
^^2013038852
OCLC
861274004
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library