Literature, Technology, and Modernity, 1860-2000

by Nicholas Daly

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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,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521123844

ISBN13:9780521123846

Release Date:January 2010

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:172 Pages

Weight:0.57 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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