Androids and Intelligent Networks in Early Modern Literature by Kevin LaGrandeur

By Kevin LaGrandeur

This ebook explores the production and use of artificially made humanoid servants and servant networks by means of fictional and non-fictional scientists of the early smooth interval. starting with an research of the roots of man-made servants, humanoids, and automata from past occasions, LaGrandeur lines how those literary representations coincide with a surging curiosity in automata and experimentation, and the way they combination with the mystical technology that preceded the empirical period. within the cases that this booklet considers, the assumption of the synthetic factotum is attached with an emotional paradox: the enjoyment of self-enhancement is counterpoised with the nervousness of self-displacement that includes distribution of agency.In this manner, the older debts of constructing man made slaves are debts of modernity within the making—a modernity characterised via the venture of extending the self and its powers, within which the imaginative and prescient of the prolonged self is essentially inseparable from the imaginative and prescient of an attenuated self. This ebook discusses the concept fictional, synthetic servants embrace immediately the pursuits of the medical wizards who lead them to and society’s conception of the risks of these objectives, and characterize the cultural fears caused via self sufficient, experimental thinkers—the form of thinkers from whom our glossy cyberneticists descend.

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