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Author Coeckelbergh, Mark, author.

Title New romantic cyborgs : romanticism, information technology, and the end of the machine / Mark Coeckelbergh.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (320 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The question concerning technology and romanticism -- Romanticism -- Romanticism against the machine -- Romanticism with the machine -- Romanticism with the machine (1) : from Frankenstein's monster to hippie computing -- Romanticism with the machine (2) : cyber romanticism, uncanny robots, romantic cyborgs, and spooky science -- Beyond romanticism, beyond the machine -- Criticisms of romanticism and of the end of the machine -- Beyond romanticism and beyond modernity : towards the (real) end of the machine.
Summary An account of the complex relationship between technology and romanticism that links nineteenth-century monsters, automata, and mesmerism with twenty-first-century technology's magic devices and romantic cyborgs.
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Subject Technology -- Philosophy.
Technology -- Philosophy.
Human-machine systems -- Philosophy.
Human-machine systems.
Philosophy.
Information technology -- Philosophy.
Information technology.
Cyborgs -- Philosophy.
Cyborgs.
Romanticism.
Romanticism.
Indexed Term PHILOSOPHY/General
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Technology
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Coeckelbergh, Mark. New romantic cyborgs. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017] 9780262035460 (DLC) 2016021510 (OCoLC)959263441
ISBN 9780262343084 (electronic book)
0262343088 (electronic book)
9780262035460
0262035464