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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| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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New York, NY :
Fordham University Press,
2018.
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| Edizione: | First edition. |
| Serie: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accesso online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1zctt2t |
Sommario:
- 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.