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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Rabinbach, Anson (Auteur)
Collectivité auteur: Project Muse
Format: Licensed eBooks
Langue:anglais
Publié: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, 2018.
Édition:First edition.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Accès en ligne:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1zctt2t
Table des matières:
  • 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.