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LaGrandeur, Kevin

 
9780415631211: Androids and Intelligent Networks in Early Modern Literature and Culture
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0415631211 ISBN 13 : 9780415631211
Editeur : Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

This book explores the creation and use of artificially made humanoid servants and servant networks by fictional and non-fictional scientists of the early modern period. Beginning with an investigation of the roots of artificial servants, humanoids, and automata from earlier times, LaGrandeur traces how these literary representations coincide with a surging interest in automata and experimentation, and how they blend with the magical science that proceeded the empirical era. These representations eerily prefigure modern robots, androids, and artificially intelligent networks, and the art that is responsible for their creation blurs the edges between magic and science in a way that resonates especially with modern notions of cybernetics. In the instances that this book considers, the idea of the artificial factotum is connected with an emotional paradox: the joy of self-enhancement is counterpoised with the anxiety of self-displacement that comes with distribution of agency.　In this way, the older accounts of creating artificial slaves are accounts of modernity in the making-a modernity characterized by the project of extending the self and its powers, in which the vision of the extended self is fundamentally inseparable from the vision of an attenuated self. This book discusses the idea that fictional, artificial servants embody at once the ambitions of the scientific wizards who make them and society's perception of the dangers of those ambitions, and represent the cultural fears triggered by independent, experimental thinkers-the type of thinkers from whom our modern cyberneticists descend.

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À propos de l'auteur

Kevin LaGrandeur is Associate Professor of English at the New York Institute of Technology, US.

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0415631211
ISBN 13 
9780415631211
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
222
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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