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" The Enlightenment cyborg : "
Allison Muri
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BL
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635142
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Muri, Allison
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The Enlightenment cyborg : : a history of communications and control in the human machine, 1660-1830 /\ Allison Muri
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viii, 308 pages, [40] pages of plates :: illustrations, facsimiles ;; 24 cm
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9780802088505
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: 0802088503
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [273]-293) and index
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| Contents
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Matter, mechanism, and the soul -- Some contexts for human machines and the body politics: early modern/postmodern government and feedback -- The man-machine: communications, circulations, and commerce -- The woman machine: techno-lust and techno-reproduction -- Cyborg conceptions: bodies, texts, and the future of human spirit
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"In The Enlightenment Cyborg, Allison Muri presents cultural evidence, from literary, philosophical, scientific, and medical texts, for the existence of mechanically steered or 'cyber' humans in the works of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century thinkers. Muri illustrates how Enlightenment exploration of the notion of the 'man-machines' was inextricably tied to ideas of reproduction, government, individual autonomy, and the soul, demonstrating an early connection between scientific theory and social and political thought. She argues that late-twentieth-century social and political movements, such as socialism, feminism, and even conservatism, are thus not unique in their use of the cyborg as a politicized trope."--BOOK JACKET
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Cyborgs-- History
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Human-machine systems-- History
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303.48/3
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TA167.M86 2007
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