Androids In The Enlightenment
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Author |
: Adelheid Voskuhl |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 295 |
Release |
: 2013-05-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226034027 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022603402X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis Androids in the Enlightenment by : Adelheid Voskuhl
The eighteenth century saw the creation of a number of remarkable mechanical androids: at least ten prominent automata were built between 1735 and 1810 by clockmakers, court mechanics, and other artisans from France, Switzerland, Austria, and the German lands. Designed to perform sophisticated activities such as writing, drawing, or music making, these “Enlightenment automata” have attracted continuous critical attention from the time they were made to the present, often as harbingers of the modern industrial age, an era during which human bodies and souls supposedly became mechanized. In Androids in the Enlightenment, Adelheid Voskuhl investigates two such automata—both depicting piano-playing women. These automata not only play music, but also move their heads, eyes, and torsos to mimic a sentimental body technique of the eighteenth century: musicians were expected to generate sentiments in themselves while playing, then communicate them to the audience through bodily motions. Voskuhl argues, contrary to much of the subsequent scholarly conversation, that these automata were unique masterpieces that illustrated the sentimental culture of a civil society rather than expressions of anxiety about the mechanization of humans by industrial technology. She demonstrates that only in a later age of industrial factory production did mechanical androids instill the fear that modern selves and societies had become indistinguishable from machines.
Author |
: Adelheid Voskuhl |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2013-05-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226034331 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022603433X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Androids in the Enlightenment by : Adelheid Voskuhl
The eighteenth century saw the creation of a number of remarkable mechanical androids: at least ten prominent automata were built between 1735 and 1810 by clockmakers, court mechanics, and other artisans from France, Switzerland, Austria, and the German lands. Designed to perform sophisticated activities such as writing, drawing, or music making, these “Enlightenment automata” have attracted continuous critical attention from the time they were made to the present, often as harbingers of the modern industrial age, an era during which human bodies and souls supposedly became mechanized. In Androids in the Enlightenment, Adelheid Voskuhl investigates two such automata—both depicting piano-playing women. These automata not only play music, but also move their heads, eyes, and torsos to mimic a sentimental body technique of the eighteenth century: musicians were expected to generate sentiments in themselves while playing, then communicate them to the audience through bodily motions. Voskuhl argues, contrary to much of the subsequent scholarly conversation, that these automata were unique masterpieces that illustrated the sentimental culture of a civil society rather than expressions of anxiety about the mechanization of humans by industrial technology. She demonstrates that only in a later age of industrial factory production did mechanical androids instill the fear that modern selves and societies had become indistinguishable from machines.
Author |
: Paola Bertucci |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 313 |
Release |
: 2017-11-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300231625 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300231628 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis Artisanal Enlightenment by : Paola Bertucci
A groundbreaking work that places the mechanical arts and the world of making at the heart of the Enlightenment What would the Enlightenment look like from the perspective of artistes, the learned artisans with esprit, who presented themselves in contrast to philosophers, savants, and routine-bound craftsmen? Making a radical change of historical protagonists, Paola Bertucci places the mechanical arts and the world of making at the heart of the Enlightenment. At a time of great colonial, commercial, and imperial concerns, artistes planned encyclopedic projects and sought an official role in the administration of the French state. The Société des Arts, which they envisioned as a state institution that would foster France’s colonial and economic expansion, was the most ambitious expression of their collective aspirations. Artisanal Enlightenment provides the first in-depth study of the Société, and demonstrates its legacy in scientific programs, academies, and the making of Diderot and D’Alembert’s Encyclopédie. Through insightful analysis of textual, visual, and material sources, Bertucci provides a groundbreaking perspective on the politics of writing on the mechanical arts and the development of key Enlightenment concepts such as improvement, utility, and progress.
Author |
: Albrecht Classen |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages |
: 742 |
Release |
: 2017-10-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783110556520 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3110556529 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis Magic and Magicians in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Time by : Albrecht Classen
There are no clear demarcation lines between magic, astrology, necromancy, medicine, and even sciences in the pre-modern world. Under the umbrella term 'magic,' the contributors to this volume examine a wide range of texts, both literary and religious, both medical and philosophical, in which the topic is discussed from many different perspectives. The fundamental concerns address issue such as how people perceived magic, whether they accepted it and utilized it for their own purposes, and what impact magic might have had on the mental structures of that time. While some papers examine the specific appearance of magicians in literary texts, others analyze the practical application of magic in medical contexts. In addition, this volume includes studies that deal with the rise of the witch craze in the late fifteenth century and then also investigate whether the Weberian notion of disenchantment pertaining to the modern world can be maintained. Magic is, oddly but significantly, still around us and exerts its influence. Focusing on magic in the medieval world thus helps us to shed light on human culture at large.
Author |
: Rebecca Cypess |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 388 |
Release |
: 2022-05-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226817910 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226817911 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis Women and Musical Salons in the Enlightenment by : Rebecca Cypess
Musical salons as liminal spaces: salonnières as agents of musical culture -- Sensuality, sociability, and sympathy: musical salon practices as enactments of Enlightenment --Ephemerae and authorship in the salon of Madame Brillon -- Composition, collaboration, and the cultivation of skill in the salon of Marianna Martines -- The cultural work of collecting and performing in the salon of Sara Levy -- Musical improvisation and poetic painting in the salon of Angelica Kauffman -- Reading musically in the salon of Elizabeth Graeme -- Conclusion.
Author |
: |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 229 |
Release |
: 2021-12-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004501225 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004501223 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis Spaces of Enlightenment Science by :
Spaces of Enlightenment Science explores the places, spaces, and exchanges where science of the Early Modern period got done, bringing together leading historians of science to examine the geographies of knowledge in the Enlightenment period.
Author |
: James Schmidt |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 582 |
Release |
: 1996-09-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0520202260 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780520202269 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis What Is Enlightenment? by : James Schmidt
This collection contains the first English translations of a group of 18th-century German essays that address the question, "what is Enlightenment?". They explore the origins of 18th-century debate on the Enlightenment, and its significance for the present.
Author |
: E. R. Truitt |
Publisher |
: University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages |
: 296 |
Release |
: 2015-06-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780812246971 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0812246977 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis Medieval Robots by : E. R. Truitt
Medieval robots took such forms as talking statues, mechanical animals, or silent metal guardians; some served to entertain or instruct while others performed surveillance or discipline. Medieval Robots explores the forgotten history of real and imagined machines that captivated Europe from the ninth through the fourteenth centuries.
Author |
: Belinda J. Dunstan |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 281 |
Release |
: 2023-05-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783031281389 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3031281381 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cultural Robotics: Social Robots and Their Emergent Cultural Ecologies by : Belinda J. Dunstan
This edited collection approaches the field of social robotics from the perspective of a cultural ecology, fostering a deeper examination of the reach of robotic technology into the lived experience of diverse human populations, as well as the impact of human cultures on the development and design of these social agents. To address the broad topic of Cultural Robotics, the book is sectioned into three focus areas: Human Futures, Assistive Technologies, and Creative Platforms and their Communities. The Human Futures section includes chapters on the histories and future of social robot morphology design, sensory and sonic interaction with robots, technology ethics, material explorations of embodiment, and robotic performed sentience. The Assistive Technologies section presents chapters from community-led teams, and researchers working to adopt a strengths-based approach to designing assistive technologies for those with disability or neurodivergence. Importantly, this section contains work written by authors belonging to those communities. Creative Platforms and their Communities looks to the creative cross-disciplinary researchers adopting robotics within their art practices, those contributing creatively to more traditional robotics research, and the testing of robotics in non-traditional platforms such as museum and gallery spaces. Cultural Robotics: Social Robots and their Emergent Cultural Ecologies makes a case for the development of social robotics to be increasingly informed by community-led transdisciplinary research, to be decentralised and democratised, shaped by teams with a diversity of backgrounds, informed by both experts and non-experts, and tested in both traditional and non-traditional platforms. In this way, the field of cultural robotics as an ecological approach to encompassing the widest possible spectrum of human experience in the development of social robotics can be advanced.
Author |
: Herbert Bruderer |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 2072 |
Release |
: 2021-01-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783030409746 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3030409740 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis Milestones in Analog and Digital Computing by : Herbert Bruderer
This Third Edition is the first English-language edition of the award-winning Meilensteine der Rechentechnik; illustrated in full color throughout in two volumes. The Third Edition is devoted to both analog and digital computing devices, as well as the world's most magnificient historical automatons and select scientific instruments (employed in astronomy, surveying, time measurement, etc.). It also features detailed instructions for analog and digital mechanical calculating machines and instruments, and is the only such historical book with comprehensive technical glossaries of terms not found in print or in online dictionaries. The book also includes a very extensive bibliography based on the literature of numerous countries around the world. Meticulously researched, the author conducted a worldwide survey of science, technology and art museums with their main holdings of analog and digital calculating and computing machines and devices, historical automatons and selected scientific instruments in order to describe a broad range of masterful technical achievements. Also covering the history of mathematics and computer science, this work documents the cultural heritage of technology as well.