Sublime Dreams of Living Machines: The Automaton in the European Imagination (repost)
Minsoo Kang, "Sublime Dreams of Living Machines: The Automaton in the European Imagination"
Publisher: Harvard University Press | ISBN 10: 0674049357 | 2011 | PDF | 386 pages | 3.5 MB
Publisher: Harvard University Press | ISBN 10: 0674049357 | 2011 | PDF | 386 pages | 3.5 MB
From the dawn of European civilization to the twentieth century, the automaton—better known today as the robot—has captured the Western imagination and provided a vital lens into the nature of humanity.
Historian Minsoo Kang argues that to properly understand the human-as-machine and the human-as-fundamentally-different-from-machine, we must trace the origins of these ideas and examine how they were transformed by intellectual, cultural, and artistic appearances of the automaton throughout the history of the West.