Bodies and Machines

Bodies and Machines
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Publisher : Psychology Press
Total Pages : 236
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ISBN-10 : 0415900212
ISBN-13 : 9780415900218
Rating : 4/5 (218 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Bodies and Machines by : Mark Seltzer

Download or read book Bodies and Machines written by Mark Seltzer and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 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 naturalist writing, such as the work of Hawthorne and Henry James, and the discourses which inform it: from scouting manuals and the programmes of systematic management to accounts of sexual biology and the rituals of consumer culture. He explores other mass-produced and mass-consumed cultural forms, including visual representations such as composite photographs, scale models, and the astonishing iconography of standardization.


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