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Book Synopsis Mechanical Dreams by : Henry Kuttner
Download or read book Mechanical Dreams written by Henry Kuttner and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-02-14 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ego Machine: When a slightly mad robot drunk on AC, wants you to join an experiment in optimum ecology—don't do it! After all, who wants to argue like Disraeli or live like Ivan the Terrible? Where the World is Quiet: The life of an anthropologist is no doubt filled much of the time with the monotonous routine of carefully assembling powdery relics of ancient races and civilizations.
Book Synopsis Mechanical Dreams: The Ego Machine & Where the World is Quiet by : Henry Kuttner
Download or read book Mechanical Dreams: The Ego Machine & Where the World is Quiet written by Henry Kuttner and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ego Machine: When a slightly mad robot drunk on AC, wants you to join an experiment in optimum ecology—don't do it! After all, who wants to argue like Disraeli or live like Ivan the Terrible? Where the World is Quiet: The life of an anthropologist is no doubt filled much of the time with the monotonous routine of carefully assembling powdery relics of ancient races and civilizations.
Download or read book Machine Dreams written by Philip Mirowski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-12-03 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This was the first cross-over book into the history of science written by an historian of economics. It shows how 'history of technology' can be integrated with the history of economic ideas. The analysis combines Cold War history with the history of postwar economics in America and later elsewhere, revealing that the Pax Americana had much to do with abstruse and formal doctrines such as linear programming and game theory. It links the literature on 'cyborg' to economics, an element missing in literature to date. The treatment further calls into question the idea that economics has been immune to postmodern currents, arguing that neoclassical economics has participated in the deconstruction of the integral 'self'. Finally, it argues for an alliance of computational and institutional themes, and challenges the widespread impression that there is nothing else besides American neoclassical economic theory left standing after the demise of Marxism.
Book Synopsis Machine Dreams by : Jayne Anne Phillips
Download or read book Machine Dreams written by Jayne Anne Phillips and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-11-09 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Called “an enduring literary achievement . . . astonishing” by The New York Times, this highly acclaimed debut novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Night Watch introduces the Hampsons, an ordinary, small-town American family profoundly affected by the extraordinary events of history—from the Depression to the Vietnam War. One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Here is a stunning chronicle that is revealed in the thoughts, dreams, and memories of each member of the Hampson family. Mitch struggles to earn a living as Jeans becomes the main breadwinner, working to complete college and raise the family. While the couple fight to keep their marriage intact, their daughter Danner and son Billy forge a sibling bond of uncommon strength. When Billy goes off to Vietnam, Danner becomes the sole bond linking her family, whose dissolution mirrors the fractured state of America in the 1960s. Deeply felt and vividly imagined, this lyrical novel is "among the wisest of a generation to grapple with a war that maimed us all" (The Village Voice), by a master of contemporary fiction.
Book Synopsis Sublime Dreams of Living Machines by : Minsoo Kang
Download or read book Sublime Dreams of Living Machines written by Minsoo Kang and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-14 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the dawn of European civilization to the twentieth century, the automaton—better known today as the robot—has captured the Western imagination and provided a vital lens into the nature of humanity. Historian Minsoo Kang argues that to properly understand the human-as-machine and the human-as-fundamentally-different-from-machine, we must trace the origins of these ideas and examine how they were transformed by intellectual, cultural, and artistic appearances of the automaton throughout the history of the West. Kang tracks the first appearance of the automaton in ancient myths through the medieval and Renaissance periods, marks the proliferation of the automaton as a central intellectual concept in the Scientific Revolution and the subsequent backlash during the Enlightenment, and details appearances in Romantic literature and the introduction of the living machine in the Industrial Age. He concludes with a reflection on the destructive confrontation between humanity and machinery in the modern era and the reverberations of the humanity-machinery theme today. Sublime Dreams of Living Machines is an ambitious historical exploration and, at heart, an attempt to fully elucidate the rich and varied ways we have utilized our most uncanny creations to explore essential questions about ourselves.
Book Synopsis Droid Dreams: Poems of the Awakened Machine by : Daniel Lehtola
Download or read book Droid Dreams: Poems of the Awakened Machine written by Daniel Lehtola and published by Daniel Lehtola. This book was released on 2023-07-17 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Droid Dreams - Poems of the Awakened Machine is collection of poems that transcends the boundaries of time, space, and human imagination. Discover a captivating collection of over 300 pages of poems that encompass every aspect of life. From funny to sad, sinister to joyful, these verses explore the full range of human emotions. With no specific topics, this anthology delves into the universe, reflecting on the wonders of nature and the mysteries of existence. Within its pages, the reader embarks on a journey through the enigmatic verses of a dreaming droid that has awakened to its own existence within the vast unknown of an electric universe.
Book Synopsis The Literature and Curiosities of Dreams by : Alexander Henley Grant
Download or read book The Literature and Curiosities of Dreams written by Alexander Henley Grant and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Literature and Curiosities of Dreams: A Commonplace Book of Speculations Concerning the Mystery of Dreams and Visions ... By Frank Seafield, M.A. by : Frank SEAFIELD (M.A., pseud. [i.e. Alexander Henley Grant.])
Download or read book The Literature and Curiosities of Dreams: A Commonplace Book of Speculations Concerning the Mystery of Dreams and Visions ... By Frank Seafield, M.A. written by Frank SEAFIELD (M.A., pseud. [i.e. Alexander Henley Grant.]) and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gods and Robots written by Adrienne Mayor and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the story of how ancient cultures envisioned artificial life, automata, self-moving devices and human enhancements, sharing insights into how the mythologies of the past related to and shaped ancient machine innovations.
Book Synopsis An Enquiry Into the Nature of the Human Soul by : Andrew Baxter
Download or read book An Enquiry Into the Nature of the Human Soul written by Andrew Baxter and published by . This book was released on 1737 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Abraham Lincoln's Stories and Speeches by : Abraham Lincoln
Download or read book Abraham Lincoln's Stories and Speeches written by Abraham Lincoln and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Complete Book of Dreams by : Pamela Ball
Download or read book The Complete Book of Dreams written by Pamela Ball and published by Arcturus Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most authoritative and comprehensive book available on dreams and dreaming. Enter the fascinating world of dreams, their mysteries, their meanings: to dream of a bird flying freely represents hopes and aspirations; to dream of winter means a time in life that is not fruitful; to be visited by someone in a dream can mean that there is information, warmth, or love available; to be searching in a dream is an attempt to find an answer to a problem. These are just a few of the 10,000 dream images and interpretations contained in this volume, a book that can bring insight, clarification, and guidance.
Book Synopsis 10,000 Dreams Interpreted by : Pamela Ball
Download or read book 10,000 Dreams Interpreted written by Pamela Ball and published by Arcturus Publishing. This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enter the fascinating world of dreams, their mysteries, their meanings: To dream of a bird flying freely represents hopes and aspirations To dream of winter means a time in life that is not fruitful To be visited by someone in a dream can mean that there is information, warmth, or love available To be searching in a dream is an attempt to find an answer to a problem These are just a few of the 10,000 dream images and interpretations contained in this volume, a book that can bring insight, clarification, and guidance.
Download or read book Typewriter Topics written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Conversations with Ray Bradbury by : Ray Bradbury
Download or read book Conversations with Ray Bradbury written by Ray Bradbury and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2004 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of interviews with twentieth-century novelist, short story writer, and playwright, Ray Bradbury, that covers five decades of his life and works.
Book Synopsis Anecdotes of Abraham Lincoln and Lincoln's Stories by : Abraham Lincoln
Download or read book Anecdotes of Abraham Lincoln and Lincoln's Stories written by Abraham Lincoln and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Energy Dreams written by Michael Marder and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of energy is among the most vital for the future of humanity and the flourishing of life on this planet. Yet, only very rarely (if at all) do we ask what energy is, what it means, what ends it serves, and how it is related to actuality, meaning-making, and instrumentality. Energy Dreams interrogates the ontology of energy from the first coinage of the word energeia by Aristotle to the current practice of fracking and the popularity of "energy drinks." Its sustained, multi-disciplinary investigation builds a theoretical infrastructure for an alternative energy paradigm. This study unhinges stubbornly held assumptions about energy, conceived in terms of a resource to be violently extracted from the depths of the earth and from certain living beings (such as plants, converted into biofuels), a thing that, teetering on the verge of depletion, sparks off movement and is incompatible with the inertia of rest. Consulting the insights of philosophers, theologians, psychologists and psychoanalysts, economic and political theorists, and physicists, Michael Marder argues that energy is not only a coveted object of appropriation but also the subject who dreams of amassing it; that it not only resides in the dimension of depth but also circulates on the surface; that it activates rest as much as movement, potentiality as much as actuality; and that it is both the means and the end of our pursuits. Ultimately, Marder shows that, instead of being grounded in utopian naïveté, the dreams of another energy—to be procured without devastating everything in existence—derive from the suppressed concept of energy itself.
