TY  - GEN
T1  - The Enlightenment cyborg : a history of communications and control in the human machine, 1660-1830
A1  - Muri, Allison
LA  - English
PP  - Toronto, Ont. ; Buffalo, N.Y.
PB  - University of Toronto Press
YR  - 2007
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn500909061
AB  - For many cultural theorists, the concept of the cyborg - an organism controlled by mechanic processes - is firmly rooted in the post-modern, post-industrial, post-Enlightenment, post-nature, post-gender, or post-human culture of the late twentieth century. Allison Muri argues, however, that there is a long and rich tradition of art and philosophy that explores the equivalence of human and machine, and that the cybernetic organism as both a literary figure and an anatomical model has, in fact, existed since the Enlightenment.In The Enlightenment Cyborg, Muri presents cultural evidence - in literary, philosophical, scientific, and medical texts - for the existence of mechanically steered, or 'cyber' humans in the works seventeenth- and eighteenth-century thinkers. Muri illustrates how Enlightenment exploration of the notion of the 'man-machine' was inextricably tied to ideas of reproduction, government, individual autonomy, and the soul, demonstrating an early connection between scientific theory and social and political thought. She argues that late twentieth-century social and political movements, such as socialism, feminism, and even conservatism, are thus not unique in their use of the cyborg as a politicized trope.The Enlightenment Cyborg establishes a dialogue between eighteenth-century studies and cyborg art and theory, and makes a significant and original contribution to both of these fields of inquiry.
OP  - 308
CN  - TA167 .M86 2007eb
SN  - 9781442684904
SN  - 1442684909
SN  - 0802088503
SN  - 9780802088505
KW  - Human-machine systems : History.
KW  - Cyborgs : History.
KW  - Systèmes homme-machine : Histoire.
KW  - Cyborgs : Histoire.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Popular Culture.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : General.
KW  - Cyborgs
KW  - Human-machine systems
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - History
ER  -