Literature, Technology, and Modernity, 1860-2000 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521833929)

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.

Author: Nicholas Daly
ISBN-10: 0521833922
ISBN-13: 9780521833929
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/15/2004
Pages: 170
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.60d