Monsters In The Machine
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The Monster In The Machine
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Author : Zakiya Hanafi
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2000-10-25
The Monster In The Machine written by Zakiya Hanafi and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-10-25 with Science categories.
The Monster in the Machine tracks the ways in which human beings were defined in contrast to supernatural and demonic creatures during the time of the Scientific Revolution. Zakiya Hanafi recreates scenes of Italian life and culture from the late sixteenth to the early eighteenth centuries to show how monsters were conceptualized at this particular locale and historical juncture—a period when the sacred was being supplanted by a secular, decidedly nonmagical way of looking at the world. Noting that the word “monster” is derived from the Latin for “omen” or “warning,” Hanafi explores the monster’s early identity as a portent or messenger from God. Although monsters have always been considered “whatever we are not,” they gradually were tranformed into mechanical devices when new discoveries in science and medicine revealed the mechanical nature of the human body. In analyzing the historical literature of monstrosity, magic, and museum collections, Hanafi uses contemporary theory and the philosophy of technology to illuminate the timeless significance of the monster theme. She elaborates the association between women and the monstrous in medical literature and sheds new light on the work of Vico—particularly his notion of the conatus—by relating it to Vico’s own health. By explicating obscure and fascinating texts from such disciplines as medicine and poetics, she invites the reader to the piazzas and pulpits of seventeenth-century Naples, where poets, courtiers, and Jesuit preachers used grotesque figures of speech to captivate audiences with their monstrous wit. Drawing from a variety of texts from medicine, moral philosophy, and poetics, Hanafi’s guided tour through this baroque museum of ideas will interest readers in comparative literature, Italian literature, history of ideas, history of science, art history, poetics, women’s studies, and philosophy.
The Monster As War Machine
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Author : Mabel Moraña
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-01-08
The Monster As War Machine written by Mabel Moraña and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
In The Monster as War Machine, European monster tradition intersects with American mass-media production and new philosophical approaches to examine topics of community, political power, alternative representations of race and gender, identity, hybridity, political agency, and collective subjectivity. In this book, cultural theory, close readings of literary texts, and interpretations of visual materials come together, covering a wide and diversified cultural territory. Some of the authors included in this study are Agamben, Badiou, Baudrillard, Deleuze, Esposito, Foucault, Freud, Haraway, Hardt, Kristeva, Marx, Negri, and Zizek, whose works illuminate the disruptive and at times emancipatory role of monstrosity as a representation of excess, instinct, evil, truth, and rebelliousness. This book is an important resource for those studying film, contemporary literature, and popular culture. This book is in the Cambria Latin American Literatures and Cultures Series headed by Román de la Campa, the Edwin B. and Lenore R. Williams Professor of Romance Languages at the University of Pennsylvania.
Monster Trucks
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Author : Ian Graham
language : en
Publisher: Qeb Publishing -- Quarto Library
Release Date : 2016-08
Monster Trucks written by Ian Graham and has been published by Qeb Publishing -- Quarto Library this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08 with Monster trucks categories.
Introduces various types of monster trucks, including those used in monster truck competitions and those used to haul extremely heavy loads.
Man Vs Machine
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Author : Karsten Müller
language : en
Publisher: SCB Distributors
Release Date : 2018-10-30
Man Vs Machine written by Karsten Müller and has been published by SCB Distributors this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-30 with Games & Activities categories.
Man vs. Machine Technology continues to advance at a rapid pace. It may sound quaint today, but not so long ago, computers battled humans for supremacy at the game of chess. The challenge of building a computer program capable of defeating the best of human-kind at chess was one of the original grand challenges of the fledgling field of artificial intelligence. On one side were dedicated scientists and hobbyists who invested decades of effort developing the software and hardware technology; on the other side were incredibly talented humans with only their determination and preparation to withstand the onslaught of technology. The man versus machine battle in chess is a landmark in the history of technology. There are numerous books that document the technical aspects of this epic story. The human side is not often told. Few chess players are inclined to write about their man-machine encounters, other than annotating the games played. This book brings the two sides together. It tells the stories of many of the key scientists and chess players that participated in a 50-year research project to advance the understanding of computing technology. “Grandmaster Karsten Müller and Professor Jonathan Schaeffer have managed to describe the fascinating history of the unequal fight of man against machine in an entertaining and instructive way. It evoked pleasant and not so pleasant memories of my own fights against the monsters. I hope that their work gives you as much pleasure as it has given me.” – From the Foreword by Vladimir Kramnik, 14th World Chess Champion
Apocalypse Machine
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Author : Jeremy Robinson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-03-26
Apocalypse Machine written by Jeremy Robinson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-26 with Fiction categories.
Jeremy Robinson returns to the Kaiju Thriller genre he popularized with the largest Kaiju to ever appear in fiction: the Apocalypse Machine. Bursting with all the epic action, desperate struggle and complex characters that readers have come to expect, Robinson takes the world to the brink once more.
Mesmerists Monsters And Machines
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Author : Martin Willis
language : en
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Release Date : 2006
Mesmerists Monsters And Machines written by Martin Willis and has been published by Kent State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Art categories.
Using key canonical science fiction narratives, 'Mesmerists, Monsters, and Machines' examines the intersection of the literary and scientific cultures of the 19th century.
Monsters Monstrosities And The Monstrous In Culture And Society
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Author : Diego Compagna
language : en
Publisher: Vernon Press
Release Date : 2020-01-28
Monsters Monstrosities And The Monstrous In Culture And Society written by Diego Compagna and has been published by Vernon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-28 with Social Science categories.
Existing research on monsters acknowledges the deep impact monsters have especially on Politics, Gender, Life Sciences, Aesthetics and Philosophy. From Sigmund Freud’s essay ‘The Uncanny’ to Scott Poole’s ‘Monsters in America’, previous studies offer detailed insights about uncanny and immoral monsters. However, our anthology wants to overcome these restrictions by bringing together multidisciplinary authors with very different approaches to monsters and setting up variety and increasing diversification of thought as ‘guiding patterns’. Existing research hints that monsters are embedded in social and scientific exclusionary relationships but very seldom copes with them in detail. Erving Goffman’s doesn’t explicitly talk about monsters in his book ‘Stigma’, but his study is an exceptional case which shows that monsters are stigmatized by society because of their deviations from norms, but they can form groups with fellow monsters and develop techniques for handling their stigma. Our book is to be understood as a complement and a ‘further development’ of previous studies: The essays of our anthology pay attention to mechanisms of inequality and exclusion concerning specific historical and present monsters, based on their research materials within their specific frameworks, in order to ‘create’ engaging, constructive, critical and diverse approaches to monsters, even utopian visions of a future of societies shared by monsters. Our book proposes the usual view, that humans look in a horrified way at monsters, but adds that monsters can look in a critical and even likewise frightened way at the very societies which stigmatize them.
Narrative Machine
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Author : Zena Meadowsong
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-11-20
Narrative Machine written by Zena Meadowsong and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
Narrative Machine: The Naturalist, Modernist, and Postmodernist Novel advances a new history of the novel, identifying a crucial link between narrative innovation and the historical process of mechanization. In the late nineteenth century, the novel grapples with a new and increasingly acute problem: In its attempt to represent the colossal power of modern machinery—the steam-driven machines of the Industrial Revolution, the electrical machines of the modern city, and the atomic and digital machines developed after the Second World War—it encounters the limitations of traditional representative strategies. Beginning in the naturalist novel, the machine is typically portrayed as a mythic monster, and though that monster represents a potentially horrific reality—the superhuman power of mechanization—it also disrupts the documentary objectives of narrative realism (the dominant mode of nineteenth-century fiction). The mechanical monster, realistic and yet at odds with traditional realist strategies, tears the form of the novel apart. In doing so, it unleashes a series of innovations that disclose, critique, and contest the force of mechanization: the innovations associated with literary naturalism, modernism, and postmodernism.
The Romantic Machine
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Author : John Tresch
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2012-02-06
The Romantic Machine written by John Tresch and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-06 with History categories.
In the years immediately following Napoleon’s defeat, French thinkers in all fields set their minds to the problem of how to recover from the long upheavals that had been set into motion by the French Revolution. Many challenged the Enlightenment’s emphasis on mechanics and questioned the rising power of machines, seeking a return to the organic unity of an earlier age and triggering the artistic and philosophical movement of romanticism. Previous scholars have viewed romanticism and industrialization in opposition, but in this groundbreaking volume John Tresch reveals how thoroughly entwined science and the arts were in early nineteenth-century France and how they worked together to unite a fractured society. Focusing on a set of celebrated technologies, including steam engines, electromagnetic and geophysical instruments, early photography, and mass-scale printing, Tresch looks at how new conceptions of energy, instrumentality, and association fueled such diverse developments as fantastic literature, popular astronomy, grand opera, positivism, utopian socialism, and the Revolution of 1848. He shows that those who attempted to fuse organicism and mechanism in various ways, including Alexander von Humboldt and Auguste Comte, charted a road not taken that resonates today. Essential reading for historians of science, intellectual and cultural historians of Europe, and literary and art historians, The Romantic Machine is poised to profoundly alter our understanding of the scientific and cultural landscape of the early nineteenth century.
Fantastic Voyages
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Author : Leroy W. Dubeck
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 1994
Fantastic Voyages written by Leroy W. Dubeck and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Performing Arts categories.
Reveals the facts behind the fiction, establishing a novel approach to teaching science.