Embodiment and mechanisation :: reciprocal understandings of body and machine from the Renaissance to the present /

This book explores the interaction between mechanistic beliefs about human bodies and the successive technologies that have established and illustrated these beliefs. Drawing upon newer perspectives on technology and embodied human thought it provides a position from which widely held assumptions ab...

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1. Verfasser: Black, Daniel (Daniel Ariad)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Farnham, Surrey, UK : Ashgate, [2014]
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Zusammenfassung:This book explores the interaction between mechanistic beliefs about human bodies and the successive technologies that have established and illustrated these beliefs. Drawing upon newer perspectives on technology and embodied human thought it provides a position from which widely held assumptions about our relationship with technology can be understood and questioned, by both showing how these presuppositions have emerged and developed, and examining the extent to which they are dependent upon our grasp of specific technologies.
Beschreibung:1 online resource
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781472415448
1472415442
9781472415455
1472415450
1306818540
9781306818544
1317144872
9781317144878

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