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Author Muri, Allison.

Title The Enlightenment cyborg : a history of communications and control in the human machine, 1660-1830 / Allison Muri.

Publication Info. Toronto, Ont. ; Buffalo, N.Y. : University of Toronto Press, [2007]
©2007

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 308 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-293) and index.
Contents ""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""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""
""H""""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""; ""Illustrations""
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Subject Human-machine systems -- History.
Human-machine systems.
History.
Cyborgs -- History.
Cyborgs.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Muri, Allison. Enlightenment cyborg. Toronto, Ont. ; Buffalo, N.Y. : University of Toronto Press, ©2007 (DLC) 2007296594
ISBN 9781442684904 (electronic book)
1442684909 (electronic book)
0802088503 (bound)
9780802088505 (bound)