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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812879203321

Autore

Black Daniel (Daniel Ariad)

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Farnham, Surrey, England ; ; Burlington, Vermont : , : Ashgate, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-315-57915-4

1-4724-1545-0

1-317-14487-2

1-4724-1544-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (220 p.)

Disciplina

301

Soggetti

Human body - Social aspects - History

Human body and technology - History

Human mechanics - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Preface; Introduction; 1 How to Look at Bodies; 2 Machina Carnis; 3 Android Dreams; 4 Informateriality; 5 An Aesthetics of the Invisible; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.