The soul of the marionette : a short inquiry into human freedom /
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| Author / Creator: | Gray, John, 1948- author. |
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| Edition: | First American paperback edition. |
| Imprint: | New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016. ©2015 |
| Description: | 179 pages ; 21 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12343446 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. The Faith of Puppets
- The freedom of the marionette
- The faith of puppets
- Demiurgy and tailors' dummies
- Leopardi and the souls of machines
- The return of Ligeia
- The golem and the circular ruins
- Solaris and our world
- The revelation of Philip K. Dick
- Entering the Zone
- Mr Weston drops a match
- 2. In the Puppet Theatre
- Roof gardens, feathers and human sacrifice
- Dark mirrors, hidden angels and an algorithmic prayer-wheel
- Human redundancy and the cyborg economy
- An iron mountain and a shifting spectacle
- A universal Panopticon
- Puppetry, conspiracy and Ouija boards
- When the machine stops
- 3. Freedom for Über-marionettes
- What science won't fell you
- Ethics for puppets
- Gravity and the Fall
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
