Romantic Automata: Exhibits, Figures, and Organisms, Michael Demson, Christopher R. Clason

Автор: Michael Demson, Christopher R. Clason
Название: Romantic Automata: Exhibits, Figures, and Organisms
ISBN: 1684481767 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781684481767
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: For most of the eighteenth century, automata were deemed a celebration of human ingenuity, feats of science and reason. Among the Romantics, however, they prompted a contradictory apprehension about mechanization and contrivance: such science and engineering threatened the spiritual nature of life, the source of compassion in human society. A deep dread of puppets and the machinery that propels them consequently surfaced in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century literature. Romantic Automata is a collection of essays examining the rise of this cultural suspicion of mechanical imitations of life. Recent scholarship in post-humanism, post-colonialism, disability studies, post-modern feminism, eco-criticism, and radical Orientalism has significantly affected the critical discourse on this topic. In engaging with the work and thought of Coleridge, Poe, Hoffmann, Mary Shelley, and other Romantic luminaries, the contributors to this collection open new methodological approaches to understanding human interaction with technology that strives to simulate, supplement, or supplant organic life. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press. 

Автор: Paul Levi; Serge Kernbach
Название: Symbiotic Multi-Robot Organisms
ISBN: 3642263585 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783642263583
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This book examines the evolution of self-organised multicellular structures, and the remarkable transition from unicellular to multicellular life. It shows the way forward in developing new robotic entities that are versatile, cooperative and self-configuring.