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Literature, Technology, and Modernity, 1860 2000

Literature, Technology, and Modernity, 1860 2000

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Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521123844
ISBN13: 9780521123846
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Dec 17 2009
Pages: 172
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Writing for scholars of modernism, literature, and film, Nicholas Daly considers the way human/machine encounters have been imagined from the 1860s on, arguing that such scenes dramatize the modernization of subjectivity. Although modernity assumes that there is a difference between people and machines, a consequence of this belief has been a recurring fantasy about the erasure of that difference. The central scenario in this fantasy is the crash, or collision, sometimes literal, sometimes metaphorical.

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