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The Spiritual Automaton
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Author : Eugene Marshall
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2014-01-02
The Spiritual Automaton written by Eugene Marshall and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-02 with Philosophy categories.
Eugene Marshall presents an original, systematic account of Spinoza's philosophy of mind, in which the mind is presented as an affective mechanism, one that, when rational, behaves as a spiritual automaton. The central feature of the account is a novel concept of consciousness, one that identifies consciousness with affectivity, a property of an idea paradigmatically but not exhaustively instantiated by those modes of thought Spinoza calls affects. Inadequate and adequate ideas come to consciousness, and thus impact our well-being and establish or disturb our happiness, only insofar as they become affects and, thus, conscious. And ideas become affects by entering into appropriate causal relations with the other ideas that constitute a mind. Furthermore, the topic of consciousness in Spinoza provides an eminently well-placed point of entry into his system, because it flows directly out of his central metaphysical, epistemological, and psychological commitments—and it does so in a way that allows us to see Spinoza's philosophy as a systematic whole. Further, doing so provides a thoroughly consistent yet novel way of thinking about central themes in his thought. Marshall's reading provides a novel understanding of adequacy, innateness, power, activity and passivity, the affects, the conatus, bondage, freedom, the illusion of free will, akrasia, blessedness, salvation, and the eternity of the soul. In short, by explaining the affective mechanisms of consciousness in Spinoza, The Spiritual Automaton illuminates Spinoza's systematic philosophical and ethical project as a whole, as well as in its details, in a striking new way.
Spiritual Automata Craft Reproduction And Violence 1850 1930
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Author : Joseph Luis Moctezuma
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Spiritual Automata Craft Reproduction And Violence 1850 1930 written by Joseph Luis Moctezuma and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.
This dissertation is about the significance of automatism as a theory and mode of aesthetic production in the British avant-garde. It proposes that the British avant-garde begins with the founding of the Pre-Raphaelites in 1848 and concludes with the multiple interwar movements (vorticism, futurism, dadaism, surrealism) that climaxed and dissipated in the 1930s. The dissertation narrows and examines this timeframe through the figures of William Morris, Mina Loy, and Wyndham Lewis, whose work across mediums and genres outline a useful schematic for redefining the qualities of the British avant-garde. The stakes of the dissertation lie in proposing a solution to the riddle of a British avantgarde that alternated between a conservative aesthetics and a radical politics (such as in Morris), between a reactionary sexual politics and a radicalized poetic style (such as in Loy), and between a radical aesthetics and a conservative politics (such as in Lewis). The dissertation proposes that the alternation between conservatism and radicalism in these three authors can be explained through the lens of automatism, which changes shape, purpose, and import in the work of each author. More than any British author in a similar time frame, Morris, Loy, and Lewis embody the essential features of British avant-gardism in many of its contradictions and valances. Automatism is a conceptual term that I develop throughout the dissertation. It will come to signify three different forms of aesthetic performance: an automatism of craft, an automatism of reproduction, and an automatism of violence, which find their correlates, respectively, in the work of Morris, Loy, and Lewis. By automatism, I refer to what Morris calls the "unconscious intelligence" of the skilled artisan who works with great facility in a given medium. In a broader sense, automatism simply refers to moments and patterns of skilled performativity (or "mastery") standardized by a nearly automatic engrossment in a material situation. The dissertation chapters are organized as follows. Chapter One examines the transmedial work of William Morris and its relation to labor, craft, and industrial automatism. The first section looks at Morris's epic poem, Sigurd the Volsung (1876), which allegorizes Morris's hostile attitude toward industrial automatism and the hope he placed in the revival of handicrafts. I argue that Morris conceptualizes handicraft as a technical automatism that repairs and strengthens human agency. The second section looks at Pilgrims of Hope (1885), which dramatizes the events of the Paris Commune. I argue that Pilgrims represents Morris's utopic hope that incorporation into a socialist community might erase troubling notions of bourgeois married life, property fetishism, and domesticity. Chapter Two examines the work of Mina Loy and its relation to the sexual politics of the avant-garde. The first section looks at Mina Loy's anxieties over aesthetic and biological reproduction, and the problematic relationship she maintained with futurism. I argue that her early poems develop a theory of automatism that regards sexual difference as the key to "spiritual" (as opposed to biological) evolution. In the second section I look at Mina Loy's novel Insel, written in the 1930s and unpublished in her lifetime. Insel narrates Loy's exploration of surrealist art and its tangled commitment to automatism as a generative technique. I argue that Loy reframes automatism as a medium for transgressing the politics of sexual difference and creating new forms of life. Chapter Three examines the work of Wyndham Lewis and its relation to political and aesthetic violence. The first section looks at Lewis's collection of short stories, The Wild Body (1927), and his novel, Tarr (1918, 1928), and I argue that these works capture the heart of Lewis's painterly style of writing, as well as his core ideas regarding the automaton-nature of the human organism. In the second section, I look at One-Way Song (1933), Lewis's only major work of poetry. I argue that One-Way Song offers a compelling account for automatism as a means of preserving human culture, paradoxically, through satire and mimetic violence.
The Automaton In English Renaissance Literature
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Author : Dr Wendy Beth Hyman
language : en
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2013-05-28
The Automaton In English Renaissance Literature written by Dr Wendy Beth Hyman and has been published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-28 with Science categories.
The Automaton in English Renaissance Literature features original essays exploring the automaton-from animated statue to anthropomorphized machine-in the poetry, prose, and drama of England in the 16th and 17th centuries. Addressing the history and significance of the living machine in early modern literature, the collection places literary automata of the period within their larger aesthetic, historical, philosophical, and scientific contexts. While no single theory or perspective conscribes the volume, taken as a whole the collection helps correct an assumption that frequently emerges from a post-Enlightenment perspective: that these animated beings are by definition exemplars of the new science, or that they point necessarily to man's triumphant relationship to technology. On the contrary, automata in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries seem only partly and sporadically to function as embodiments of an emerging mechanistic or materialist worldview. Renaissance automata were just as likely not to confirm for viewers a hypothesis about the man-machine. Instead, these essays show, automata were often a source of wonder, suggestive of magic, proof of the uncannily animating effect of poetry-indeed, just as likely to unsettle the divide between man and divinity as that between man and matter.
Miracles And Machines
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Author : Elizabeth King
language : en
Publisher: Getty Publications
Release Date : 2023-08-22
Miracles And Machines written by Elizabeth King and has been published by Getty Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-22 with Art categories.
An abundantly illustrated narrative that draws from the history of art, science, technology, artificial intelligence, psychology, religion, and conservation in telling the extraordinary story of a Renaissance robot that prays. This volume tells the singular story of an uncanny, rare object at the cusp of art and science: a 450-year-old automaton known as “the monk.” The walking, gesticulating figure of a friar, in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, is among the earliest extant ancestors of the self-propelled robot. According to legend connected to the court of Philip II of Spain, the monk represents a portrait of Diego de Alcalá, a humble Franciscan lay brother whose holy corpse was said to be agent to the miraculous cure of Spain’s crown prince as he lay dying in 1562. In tracking the origins of the monk and its legend, the authors visited archives, libraries, and museums across the United States and Europe, probing the paradox of a mechanical object performing an apparently spiritual act. They identified seven kindred automata from the same period, which, they argue, form a paradigmatic class of walking “prime movers,” unprecedented in their combination of visual and functional realism. While most of the literature on automata focuses on the Enlightenment, this enthralling narrative journeys back to the late Renaissance, when clockwork machinery was entirely new, foretelling the evolution of artificial life to come.
Machine Intelligence And The Imaginal Realm
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Author : Luke Lafitte
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2022-02-01
Machine Intelligence And The Imaginal Realm written by Luke Lafitte and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-01 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
• Explores how we naturally project consciousness onto machines and how this is reflected in human culture, science, artificial intelligence, and literature • Demonstrates a direct connection between consciousness and the history of machines in American history • Looks at the contributions and influence of Grace Hopper, Richard Feynman, Philip K. Dick, Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, Elon Musk, David Bohm, Norbert Wiener, and Steve Jobs as well as the Nag Hammadi Gnostic gospels Humans invented and constructed machines to aid them, as far back as the Stone Age. As the machines became more complex, they became extensions of the body and mind, and we naturally began projecting consciousness onto them. As Luke Lafitte shows in detail, although machines complicate the already complicated issue of identity, because they are “ours” and “of us,” they are part of our spiritual development. In this sweeping exploration of the history of the machine as a tool, as a transpersonal object to assist human activity, and as a transitional artifact between spirits and the humans who interact with them, Lafitte examines the role that machines play in the struggle between “spiritual man” and “mechanical man” throughout history. He interprets the messages, archetypes, and language of the unconscious in the first popular stories related to mechanical men, and he demonstrates a direct connection between consciousness and the history of machines in American history, specifically between the inventors of these machines and the awakening of our imaginations and our powers of manifestation. He examines the influence of Philip K. Dick, Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, Grace Hopper, Richard Feynman, Elon Musk, David Bohm, and others and shows how the Nag Hammadi gospels explain how we can take back our myth and spirit from the machine. Although the term “mechanical man” is a catch-all phrase, Lafitte shows that the term is also a meeting ground where extra-dimensional communications between different forms of matter occur. Every machine, android, robot, and cyborg arose from consciousness, and these mechanical men, whether real or fictive, offer us an opportunity to free ourselves from enslavement to materialism and awaken our imaginations to create our own realities.
The Automaton Fantasy And Horror Classics
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Author : E. T. A. Hoffmann
language : en
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Release Date : 2015-10-21
The Automaton Fantasy And Horror Classics written by E. T. A. Hoffmann and has been published by Read Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-21 with Fiction categories.
This early work by E. T. A. Hoffmann was originally published in 1814. Born in Königsberg, East Prussia in 1776, Hoffmann's family were all jurists, and during his youth he was initially encouraged to pursue a career in law. However, in his late teens Hoffman became increasingly interested in literature and philosophy, and spent much of his time reading German classicists and attending lectures by, amongst others, Immanuel Kant. Hoffman went on to produce a great range of both literary and musical works. Probably Hoffman's most well-known story, produced in 1816, is 'The Nutcracker and the Mouse King', due to the fact that - some seventy-six years later - it inspired Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker. In the same vein, his story 'The Sandman' provided both the inspiration for Léo Delibes's ballet Coppélia, and the basis for a highly influential essay by Sigmund Freud, called 'The Uncanny'. (Indeed, Freud referred to Hoffman as the "unrivalled master of the uncanny in literature.") Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions.
Filmosophy
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Author : Daniel Frampton
language : en
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Release Date : 2006
Filmosophy written by Daniel Frampton and has been published by Wallflower Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Performing Arts categories.
'Filmosophy' is a manifesto for a radically philosophical way of understanding cinema. The book coalesces 20th century ideas of film as thought into a practical theory of 'film-thinking', arguing that film style conveys poetic ideas through a constant dramatic 'intent' about the characters, spaces, and events of film.
Journey Into The Light
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Author : Isha Schwaller de Lubicz
language : en
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
Release Date : 1984-04
Journey Into The Light written by Isha Schwaller de Lubicz and has been published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984-04 with Fiction categories.
This novel portrays the transformative encounter of the modern, scientific and rational mentality with the suprarational, spiritual intelligence that guides us on the Path of the Mysteries. Through dramatic dialogue and interplay between master and student, we are initiated into the realm of the spirit.
The Roman Catholic Automaton Translated From The French Of Napol On Roussel By Christopher Lumley
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Author : Napoléon Roussel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1849
The Roman Catholic Automaton Translated From The French Of Napol On Roussel By Christopher Lumley written by Napoléon Roussel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1849 with categories.
Aura And The Automaton
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Author : Leigh Fullmer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Aura And The Automaton written by Leigh Fullmer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with categories.
