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  • Artificial Intelligence before Computers

    The History of Romantic Computationalism

    par Asko Nivala ...
    Collections series Routledge Studies in Cultural History
    This cultural history of thinking machines examines conceptions of the human as an automaton and the possibility of mechanised thought in philosophical and literary works from the seventeenth century to the 1840s, with particular emphasis on the Romantic period.In the 2020s, there has been no escaping the debate over AI. Yet strong AI remains as much science fiction today as it was in the ... En savoir plus

    $89.31 CAD

  • The Romantic Idea of the Golden Age in Friedrich Schlegel's Philosophy of History

    par Asko Nivala ...
    Collections series Routledge Studies in Cultural History
    The nineteenth-century Romantic understanding of history is often confused with the longing for the past Golden Age. In this book, the Romantic idea of Golden Age is seen from a new angle by discussing it in the context of Friedrich Schlegel’s works. Interestingly, Schlegel argued that the concept of a past Golden Age in the beginning of history was itself a product of antiquity, imagined without ... En savoir plus

    $89.31 CAD

  • Travelling Notions of Culture in Early Nineteenth-Century Europe

    Modifié par Hannu Salmi, Asko Nivala, Jukka Sarjala ...
    Collections series Routledge Studies in Cultural History
    The notions of culture and civilization are at the heart of European self-image. This book focuses on how space and spatiality contributed to defining the concepts of culture and civilization and, conversely, what kind of spatial ramifications "culture" and "civilization" entailed. These questions have vital importance to the understanding of this formative period of modern Europe.The chapters of ... En savoir plus

    $92.06 CAD

  • Afterlives of Romantic Intermediality

    The Intersection of Visual, Aural, and Verbal Frontiers

    par James Cisneros, Jacinto Fombona Iribarren, Klara Franz, Tobias Hermans, Antonio J. Jimenez-Munoz, Norman Kasper, Martina Moeller, Sabine Müller, Asko Nivala, Mattias Pirholt, Karl Schawelka, Arne Stollberg ...
    Afterlives of Romantic Intermediality addresses the manifold, even global artistic developments that were initiated by European Romantics. In the first section, the contributors show how the rising perspective of intermediality was discussed in philosophical terms and adapted itself to Romantic literature and music. In the second section, the contributors show how post-Romantic writers, visual ... En savoir plus

    $158.09 CAD

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  • Time Travel

    The Popular Philosophy of Narrative

    par David Wittenberg ...
    This "stimulating contribution to literary theory" reveals the deeply philosophical concerns and developments behind popular time travel sci-fi ( London Review of Books).In Time Travel, literary theorist David Wittenberg argues that time travel fiction is not mere escapism, but a narrative "laboratory" where theoretical questions about storytelling—and, by extension, about the philosophy of ... En savoir plus

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  • How We Became Posthuman

    Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics

    par N. Katherine Hayles ...
    In this age of DNA computers and artificial intelligence, information is becoming disembodied even as the "bodies" that once carried it vanish into virtuality. While some marvel at these changes, envisioning consciousness downloaded into a computer or humans "beamed" Star Trek-style, others view them with horror, seeing monsters brooding in the machines. In How We Became Posthuman, N. Katherine ... En savoir plus

    $23.19 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Does Writing Have a Future?

    par Vilém Flusser ...
    Traduit par Nancy Ann Roth ...
    Collections series Electronic Mediations
    In Does Writing Have a Future?, a remarkably perceptive work first published in German in 1987, Vilém Flusser asks what will happen to thought and communication as written communication gives way, inevitably, to digital expression. In his introduction, Flusser proposes that writing does not, in fact, have a future because everything that is now conveyed in writing—and much that cannot be—can be ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • Circles Disturbed

    The Interplay of Mathematics and Narrative

    Modifié par Apostolos Doxiadis, Barry Mazur ...
    Why narrative is essential to mathematicsCircles Disturbed brings together important thinkers in mathematics, history, and philosophy to explore the relationship between mathematics and narrative. The book's title recalls the last words of the great Greek mathematician Archimedes before he was slain by a Roman soldier—"Don't disturb my circles"—words that seem to refer to two radically different ... En savoir plus

    $84.69 CAD

  • Sonic Flux

    Sound, Art, and Metaphysics

    par Christoph Cox ...
    From Edison's invention of the phonograph through contemporary field recording and sound installation, artists have become attracted to those domains against which music has always defined itself: noise, silence, and environmental sound. Christoph Cox argues that these developments in the sonic arts are not only aesthetically but also philosophically significant, revealing sound to be a continuous ... En savoir plus

    $19.19 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Metamorphoses of Science Fiction

    On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre

    par Darko Suvin ...
    Collections Livre 18 - Ralahine Utopian Studies
    Returning to print for the first time since the 1980s, Metamorphoses of Science Fiction is the origin point for decades of literary and theoretical criticism of science fiction and related genres. Darko Suvin’s paradigm-setting definition of SF as «the literature of cognitive estrangement» established a robust theory of the genre that continues to spark fierce debate, as well as inspiring myriad ... En savoir plus

    $80.79 CAD

  • Media Research

    Technology, Art and Communication

    par Marshall McLuhan ...
    Collections series Critical Voices in Art, Theory and Culture
    Herbert Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) received his PhD in English literature from Cambridge University and taught in the United States and Canada. He is best known, however, as the founding father of media studies. McLuhan was Director of the Center for Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto. Among his ground-breaking works on the psychic and social dimensions of communication ... En savoir plus

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  • Digital Art and Meaning

    Reading Kinetic Poetry, Text Machines, Mapping Art, and Interactive Installations

    par Roberto Simanowski ...
    Collections series Electronic Mediations
    In a world increasingly dominated by the digital, the critical response to digital art generally ranges from hype to counterhype. Popular writing about specific artworks seldom goes beyond promoting a given piece and explaining how it operates, while scholars and critics remain unsure about how to interpret and evaluate them. This is where Roberto Simanowski intervenes, demonstrating how such ... En savoir plus

    $27.49 CAD