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1 online resource (viii, 308 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
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Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- The Problem of �Modernity� and Moralizing in Postmodern Cyborg Discourse -- The Problem of Descartes, Dualism, and �Enlightenment�: Subjectivities in Cyborg Discourse -- A New Schema for Cyborg Theory -- The Problem of Definition -- The Enlightenment Cyborg -- 2 Matter, Mechanism, and the Soul -- Defining the Cyborg: Molecules, Electrons, and Spirit -- Defining the Man-Machine I: Mechanicks and Matter -- Defining the Man-Machine II: From Aether to Ethernet? |
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3 Some Contexts for Human Machines and the Body Politics: Early Modern / Postmodern Government and FeedbackContext 1: The Nervous System and Machines for Communicating -- Context 2: Communications and Control in the Cyborg -- Context 3: Communications and Control in the Man-Machine -- Context 4: Clockwork versus Feedback in Human Machines -- 4 The Man-Machine: Communications, Circulations, and Commerce -- Thomas Willis�s Nervous Government -- Communications and the Sovereignty of the Soul in The Anatomy of the Brain |
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The Extension of the Soul in Two Discourses Concerning the Soul of BrutesLiterary Communications: Materialism and the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit -- The Man-Machine and Intellectual Electricity -- 5 The Woman-Machine: Techno-lust and Techno-reproduction -- The Female Cyborg in Twentieth-century Fiction and Film, or, Why Do Cyborgs Need Boobs? -- Cyborg Reproductive Technologies in the Twentieth Century -- Female Cyborg Origin Stories -- Where�s the Woman-Machine? -- Female Vanity and Mechanick Art -- Domestic Machines? |
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Sex Machines: The Mechanical Operation of the SlitReproductive Machines: Knowledge, �Geometrical Certainty, � and the Automatic Womb -- 6 Cyborg Conceptions: Bodies, Texts, and the Future of Human Spirit -- Virtually Human: The Electronic Page, the Archived Body, and Human Identity -- Some Conceptual Frameworks: The Electronic Page and the Book of Life -- The Electronic Page and Human Spirit -- The Archived Body -- Of Books and Spirit -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- References -- Illustration Credits -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G |
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In English. |
| ISBN |
9781442684904 (electronic bk.) |
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1442684909 (electronic bk.) |
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0802088503 (bound) |
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9780802088505 (bound) |
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10.3138/9781442684904 doi |
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