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Machines (Paperback)
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Machines (Paperback)
Series: International Social Studies Forum: The Series
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This book is about machines: those that have been actualized,
fantastical imaginal machines, to those deployed as metaphorical
devices to describe complex social processes. Machines argues that
they transcend time and space to emerge through a variety of spaces
and places, times and histories and representations. They are such
an integral fabric of daily reality that their disappearance would
have immediate and dire consequences for the survival of humanity.
They are part and parcel to our contemporary social order. From
labor to social theory, art or consciousness, literature or
television, to the asylums of the 19th century, machines are a
central figure; an outgrowth of affective desire that seeks to
transcend organic limitations of bodies that whither, age and die.
Machines takes the reader on an intellectual, artistic, and
theoretical journey, weaving an interdisciplinary tale of their
emergence across social, cultural and artistic boundaries. With the
deep engagement of various texts, Machines offers the reader
moments of escape, alternative ways to envision technology for a
future yet to materialize. Machines rejects the notion that
technological innovations are indeed neutral, propelling us to
think differently about those "things" created under specific
economic or historical paradigms. Rethinking machines provides a
rupture to our current technocratic impetus, shining a critical
light on possible alternatives to our current reality. Let us sit
back and take a journey through Machines, holding mechanical parts
as guides to possible alternative futures.
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