Download or read book Minds, Bodies, Machines, 1770-1930 written by D. Coleman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-04-11 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is during the nineteenth-century, the age of machinery, that we begin to witness a sustained exploration of the literal and discursive entanglements of minds, bodies, machines. This book explores the impact of technology upon conceptions of language, consciousness, human cognition, and the boundaries between materialist and esoteric sciences.