The enlightenment cyborg : a history of communications and control in the human machine, 1660-1830 /
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| Author / Creator: | Muri, Allison, 1965- |
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| Imprint: | Toronto [Ont.] ; Buffalo [N.Y.] : University of Toronto Press, c2007. |
| Description: | viii, 308 p., [40] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6262920 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- The Problem of 'Modernity' and Moralizing in Postmodern Cyborg Discourse
- The Problem of Descartes, Dualism, and 'Enlightenment': Subjectivities in Cyborg Discourse
- A New Schema for Cyborg Theory
- The Problem of Definition
- The Enlightenment Cyborg
- 2. Matter, Mechanism, and the Soul
- Defining the Cyborg: Molecules, Electrons, and Spirit
- Defining the Man-Machine I: Mechanicks and Matter
- Defining the Man-Machine II: From Aether to Ethernet?
- 3. Some Contexts for Human Machines and the Body Politics: Early Modern / Postmodern Government and Feedback
- Context 1. The Nervous System and Machines for Communicating
- Context 2. Communications and Control in the Cyborg
- Context 3. Communications and Control in the Man-Machine
- Context 4. Clockwork versus Feedback in Human Machines
- 4. The Man-Machine: Communications, Circulations, and Commerce
- Thomas Willis's Nervous Government
- Communications and the Sovereignty of the Soul in The Anatomy of the Brain
- The Extension of the Soul in Two Discourses Concerning the Soul of Brutes
- Literary Communications: Materialism and the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit
- The Man-Machine and Intellectual Electricity
- 5. The Woman-Machine: Techno-lust and Techno-reproduction
- The Female Cyborg in Twentieth-century Fiction and Film, or, Why Do Cyborgs Need Boobs?
- Cyborg Reproductive Technologies in the Twentieth Century
- Female Cyborg Origin Stories
- Where's the Woman-Machine?
- Female Vanity and Mechanick Art
- Domestic Machines?
- Sex Machines: The Mechanical Operation of the Slit
- Reproductive Machines: Knowledge, 'Geometrical Certainty,' and the Automatic Womb
- 6. Cyborg Conceptions: Bodies, Texts, and the Future of Human Spirit
- Virtually Human: The Electronic Page, the Archived Body, and Human Identity
- Some Conceptual Frameworks: The Electronic Page and the Book of Life
- The Electronic Page and Human Spirit
- The Archived Body
- Of Books and Spirit
- Concluding Remarks
- Notes
- References
- Illustration Credits
- Index
