The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor /

The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor brings together a series of essays bridging intellectual history and the history of the body tracing the shift from the eighteenth-century concept of man as machine to the late twentieth-century concept of digital organisms. The book looks at the rise and decline...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rabinbach, Anson (Author)
Corporate Author: Project Muse
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, 2018.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1zctt2t
Table of Contents:
  • From mimetic machines to digital organisms
  • Social energeticism in fin-de-siecle Europe
  • Social knowledge and the politics of industrial accidents
  • Neurasthenia and modernity
  • Psychotechnics and politics in Weimar Germany
  • The aesthetics of production in the Third Reich
  • Metaphors of the machine in the post-Fordist era.