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  • Artificial Intelligence before Computers

    The History of Romantic Computationalism

    by Asko Nivala ...
    Series 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 ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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  • Afterlives of Romantic Intermediality

    The Intersection of Visual, Aural, and Verbal Frontiers

    by 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 ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • Travelling Notions of Culture in Early Nineteenth-Century Europe

    Edited by Hannu Salmi, Asko Nivala, Jukka Sarjala ...
    Series 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 ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

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

    by Asko Nivala ...
    Series 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 ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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  • Time Travel

    The Popular Philosophy of Narrative

    by David Wittenberg ...
    This book argues that time travel fiction is a narrative “laboratory,” a setting for thought experiments in which essential theoretical questions about storytelling—and, by extension, about the philosophy of temporality, history, and subjectivity—are represented in the form of literal devices and plots.Drawing on physics, philosophy, narrative theory, psychoanalysis, and film theory, the book ... Read more

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  • How We Became Posthuman

    Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics

    by 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 ... Read more

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  • Does Writing Have a Future?

    by Vilém Flusser ...
    Translated by Nancy Ann Roth ...
    Series 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 ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Circles Disturbed

    The Interplay of Mathematics and Narrative

    Edited by 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 ... Read more

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  • Sonic Flux

    Sound, Art, and Metaphysics

    by 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 ... Read more

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  • Marshall McLuhan's Mosaic

    Probing the Literary Origins of Media Studies

    by Elena Lamberti ...
    One hundred years after Marshall McLuhan’s birth, Elena Lamberti explores a fundamental, yet neglected aspect of his work: the solid humanistic roots of his original ‘mosaic’ form of writing. In this investigation of how his famous communication theories were influenced by literature and the arts, Lamberti proposes a new approach to McLuhan’s thought.Lamberti delves into McLuhan’s humanism in ... Read more

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  • Metamorphoses of Science Fiction

    On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre

    by Darko Suvin ...
    Series Book 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 ... Read more

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  • Media Research

    Technology, Art and Communication

    by Marshall McLuhan ...
    Series 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 ... Read more

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