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Author Black, Daniel (Daniel Ariad)

Title Embodiment and mechanisation : reciprocal understandings of body and machine from the Renaissance to the present / by Daniel Black
Published Farnham, Surrey, UK : Ashgate, [2014]

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Contents How to look at bodies -- Machina carnis -- Android dreams -- Informateriality -- An aesthetics of the invisible -- Conclusion
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Human body -- Social aspects -- History
Human body and technology -- History
Human mechanics -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
Human body and technology
Human body -- Social aspects
Human mechanics
Mensch
Maschine
Kommunikation
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781472415448
1472415442
9781472415455
1472415450
1306818540
9781306818544
1317144872
9781317144878