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Bodies/Machines (Paperback)
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Bodies/Machines (Paperback)
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It is hard to believe that the pursuit of artificial intelligence
is not a phenomenon of the twentieth century. For over three
hundred years, the boundaries between bodies and machines - the
natural and the artificial, the animate and the inanimate - have
been passionately explored. These explorations, beginning in the
seventeenth and eighteenth and increasing during the nineteenth
century, have been all but forgotten, lost beneath the commotion of
the modern day world. This book retrieves these lost histories,
giving voice to the hopes, dreams, and fears of philosophers,
medical practitioners, engineers, craftsmen and artisans who have
all been fascinated by the interface between bodies and machines.
The journey back in time unfolds with the mysterious advent of
mechanical philosophies, which conceptualized the body and the
surrounding world largely in terms of mechanistic interactions.
These theories develop in intriguing directions and fuel
experiments in such areas as material production and social
punishment, spiritualism and mental health. From reanimating dead
bodies with electricity, which led to the introduction of the
electric chair, through to the use of machines to render
'hysterics' and the insane fit for reintroduction into society,
this book conveys the dark truths behind our relationship with
machines.
This book is not only an exceptional contribution to the history of
technology but also to contemporary debates about humans and
machines.
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