1st Edition

Bodies and Machines (Routledge Revivals)

By Mark Seltzer Copyright 1992
248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

Bodies and Machines is a striking and persuasive examination of the body-machine complex and its effects on the modern American cultural imagination. Bodies and Machines , first published in 1992, explores the links between techniques of representation and social and scientific technologies of power in a wide range of realist and naturalist discourses and practices. Seltzer draws on realist and... Read more

Acknowledgements;  Introduction: Case Studies and Cultural Logistics;  Part 1: The Naturalist Machine  Part 2: Physical Capital: The Romance of the Market in Machine Culture  Part 3: Statistical Persons  Part 4: The Still Life Part  5: The Love-Master;  Notes;  Index

Biography

Seltzer, Mark