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New romantic cyborgs : romanticism, information technology, and the end of the machine
Title:
New romantic cyborgs : romanticism, information technology, and the end of the machine
Author:
Coeckelbergh, Mark, author.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]
Physical Description:
320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
Introduction : The question concerning technology and romanticism -- I. Romanticism against the machine. Romanticism -- Romanticism against the machine? -- II. Romanticism with the machine. Romanticism with the machine (1) : from Frankenstein's monster to hippie computing -- Romanticism with the machine (2) : cyberromanticism, uncanny robots, romantic cyborgs, and spooky science -- III. Beyond romanticism? Beyond the machine? Criticisms of romanticism and of the end-of-the-machine vision -- Beyond romanticism and beyond modernity : toward the (real) end of the machine?
ISBN:
9780262035460
Format :
Book