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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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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | HM636 .B526 2014 | Off-site |
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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
- 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