The Romantic Machine
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The Romantic Machine
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Author : John Tresch
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2012-06-05
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 2012-06-05 with History categories.
Introduction: Mechanical Romanticism -- DEVICES OF COSMIC UNITY -- Ampère's Experiments: Contours of a Cosmic Cubstance -- Humboldt's Instruments: Even the Tools Will Be Free -- Arago's Daguerreotype: The Labor Theory of Knowledge -- SPECTACLES OF CREATION AND METAMORPHOSIS -- The Devil's Opera: Fantastic Physiospiritualism -- Monsters, Machine-Men, Magicians: The Automaton in the Garden -- ENGINEERS OF ARTIFICIAL PARADISES -- Saint-Simonian Engines: Love and Conversions -- Leroux's Pianotype: The Organogenesis of Humanity -- Comte's Calendar: From Infinite Universe to Closed World -- Conclusion: Afterlives of the Romantic Machine.
New Romantic Cyborgs
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Author : Mark Coeckelbergh
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2017-02-24
New Romantic Cyborgs written by Mark Coeckelbergh and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-24 with Science categories.
An account of the complex relationship between technology and romanticism that links nineteenth-century monsters, automata, and mesmerism with twenty-first-century technology's magic devices and romantic cyborgs. Romanticism and technology are widely assumed to be opposed to each other. Romanticism—understood as a reaction against rationalism and objectivity—is perhaps the last thing users and developers of information and communication technology (ICT) think about when they engage with computer programs and electronic devices. And yet, as Mark Coeckelbergh argues in this book, this way of thinking about technology is itself shaped by romanticism and obscures a better and deeper understanding of our relationship to technology. Coeckelbergh describes the complex relationship between technology and romanticism that links nineteenth-century monsters, automata, and mesmerism with twenty-first-century technology's magic devices and romantic cyborgs. Coeckelbergh argues that current uses of ICT can be interpreted as attempting a marriage of Enlightenment rationalism and romanticism. He describes the “romantic dialectic,” when this new kind of material romanticism, particularly in the form of the cyborg as romantic figure, seems to turn into its opposite. He shows that both material romanticism and the objections to it are still part of modern thinking, and part of the romantic dialectic. Reflecting on what he calls “the end of the machine,” Coeckelbergh argues that to achieve a more profound critique of contemporary technologies and culture, we need to explore not only different ways of thinking but also different technologies—and that to accomplish the former we require the latter.
The Romantic Fog Machine
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Author : Patrick McCarthy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-06-29
The Romantic Fog Machine written by Patrick McCarthy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-29 with categories.
An ongoing lengthy series about a Los Angeles artist and his world.
Taffy Sinclair And The Romance Machine Disaster
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Author : Betsy Haynes
language : en
Publisher: Skylark
Release Date : 1987-03
Taffy Sinclair And The Romance Machine Disaster written by Betsy Haynes and has been published by Skylark this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-03 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
A science lesson with a computer turns into a romance machine disaster for Jana Morgan, the envy of every girl in the sixth grade.
Machine
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Author : Normandie Alleman
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-10-18
Machine written by Normandie Alleman and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-18 with categories.
America's sweetheart needs to straighten up her halo. But this solider's machine just might knock it off completely. Reality TV star Dynassy Barnes has to get her act together. Fame, fortune, a perfectly heart-shaped ass--along with her million social media followers--aren't getting the job done. She needs a full demolition of her online presence--and fast. When she meets the handsome and rugged former Navy Seal Bridger Thompson, Dynassy knows he's the perfect trophy to flaunt to her friends and family. Injured in combat, Bridger has had his share of setbacks and letdowns. He can't quite believe his luck when the sassy and sexy Dynassy wiggles her way into his life. Their chemistry is undeniable. But Bridger has a powerful secret that threatens to ruin everything. Will exposing the truth about his secret life destroy the future they hope to build together?
Machine Art In The Twentieth Century
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Author : Andreas Broeckmann
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2016-12-23
Machine Art In The Twentieth Century written by Andreas Broeckmann and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-23 with Art categories.
An investigation of artists' engagement with technical systems, tracing art historical lineages that connect works of different periods. “Machine art” is neither a movement nor a genre, but encompasses diverse ways in which artists engage with technical systems. In this book, Andreas Broeckmann examines a variety of twentieth- and early twenty-first-century artworks that articulate people's relationships with machines. In the course of his investigation, Broeckmann traces historical lineages that connect art of different periods, looking for continuities that link works from the end of the century to developments in the 1950s and 1960s and to works by avant-garde artists in the 1910s and 1920s. An art historical perspective, he argues, might change our views of recent works that seem to be driven by new media technologies but that in fact continue a century-old artistic exploration. Broeckmann investigates critical aspects of machine aesthetics that characterized machine art until the 1960s and then turns to specific domains of artistic engagement with technology: algorithms and machine autonomy, looking in particular at the work of the Canadian artist David Rokeby; vision and image, and the advent of technical imaging; and the human body, using the work of the Australian artist Stelarc as an entry point to art that couples the machine to the body, mechanically or cybernetically. Finally, Broeckmann argues that systems thinking and ecology have brought about a fundamental shift in the meaning of technology, which has brought with it a rethinking of human subjectivity. He examines a range of artworks, including those by the Japanese artist Seiko Mikami, whose work exemplifies the shift.
Lean Mean Loving Machine
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Author : Sandra Chastain
language : en
Publisher: Loveswept
Release Date : 2014-02-18
Lean Mean Loving Machine written by Sandra Chastain and has been published by Loveswept this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-18 with Fiction categories.
Beloved author Sandra Chastain tells the story of a businessman who will do anything to convince a beautiful mechanic to take a chance on him. Stacy Lanham grew up with a gambling father who dreamed big—and lost big. After he dies, leaving her with a trucking garage and little else, Stacy vows never to bet on anything that matters. So when Gavin Magadan walks into her shop dressed for a country club and presents a high-stakes business proposal, she’s skeptical of falling for another man with big dreams—no matter how hot he may be. Gavin has plans for the land around Stacy’s garage, and adding her little plot is the last step. The floundering shop should be easy to acquire, but Gavin is taken aback when he meets bold, strong-willed, and striking Stacy. To get the keys to her garage, and, more important, claim her heart, he will have to convince Stacy that she will always win if she bets on love.
Romantic Mediations
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Author : Andrew Burkett
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2016-09-21
Romantic Mediations written by Andrew Burkett and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
Investigates the ways in which new technologies and theories of photography, phonography, moving images, and digital media engage with a diverse set of texts by British Romantic writers. Finalist in the Social Sciences category, 2016 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Romantic Mediations investigates the connections among British Romantic writers, their texts, and the history of major forms of technical media from the turn of the nineteenth century to the present. Opening up the vital new subfield of Romantic media studies through interventions in both media archaeology and contemporary media theory, Andrew Burkett addresses the ways that unconventional techniques and theories of storage and processing media engage with classic texts by William Blake, Lord Byron, John Keats, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, and others. Ordered chronologically and structured by four crucial though often overlooked case studies that delve into Romanticism’s role in the histories of incipient technical media systems, the book focuses on different examples of the ways that imaginative literature and art of the period become taken up and transformed by—while simultaneously shaping considerably—new media environments and platforms of photography, phonography, moving images, and digital media. Andrew Burkett is Assistant Professor of English at Union College.
Love Machine
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Author : Clinton Caward
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Love Machine written by Clinton Caward and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with categories.
Monstrous Imaginaries
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Author : Maaheen Ahmed
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2019-12-16
Monstrous Imaginaries written by Maaheen Ahmed and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-16 with Literary Criticism categories.
Monsters seem inevitably linked to humans and not always as mere opposites. Maaheen Ahmed examines good monsters in comics to show how Romantic themes from the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries persist in today’s popular culture. Comics monsters, questioning the distinction between human and monster, self and other, are valuable conduits of Romantic inclinations. Engaging with Romanticism and the many monsters created by Romantic writers and artists such as Mary Shelley, Victor Hugo, and Goya, Ahmed maps the heritage, functions, and effects of monsters in contemporary comics and graphic novels. She highlights the persistence of recurrent Romantic features through monstrous protagonists in English- and French-language comics and draws out their implications. Aspects covered include the dark Romantic predilection for ruins and the sordid, the solitary protagonist and his quest, nostalgia, the prominence of the spectacle as well as excessive emotions, and above all, the monster’s ambiguity and rebelliousness. Ahmed highlights each Romantic theme through close readings of well-known but often overlooked comics, including Enki Bilal's Monstre tetralogy, Jim O'Barr's The Crow, and Emil Ferris’s My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, as well as the iconic comics series Alan Moore's Swamp Thing and Mike Mignola's Hellboy. In blurring the otherness of the monster, these protagonists retain the exaggeration and uncontrollability of all monsters while incorporating Romantic characteristics.