02741nam 2200649 450 991078901220332120230120065321.01-315-57915-41-4724-1545-01-317-14487-21-4724-1544-2(CKB)3710000000093388(EBL)1652961(SSID)ssj0001132088(PQKBManifestationID)12457834(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001132088(PQKBWorkID)11147528(PQKB)10909615(Au-PeEL)EBL1652961(CaPaEBR)ebr10849037(CaONFJC)MIL919010(OCoLC)874029392(Au-PeEL)EBL5293895(CaONFJC)MIL613105(MiAaPQ)EBC1652961(MiAaPQ)EBC5293895(EXLCZ)99371000000009338820140324h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEmbodiment and mechanisation reciprocal understandings of body and machine from the Renaissance to the present /by Daniel BlackFarnham, Surrey, England ;Burlington, Vermont :Ashgate,2014.©20141 online resource (220 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4724-1543-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexThis 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.Human bodySocial aspectsHistoryHuman body and technologyHistoryHuman mechanicsHistoryHuman bodySocial aspectsHistory.Human body and technologyHistory.Human mechanicsHistory.301Black Daniel(Daniel Ariad),1549505MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910789012203321Embodiment and mechanisation3807632UNINA