Copying Machines: Taking Notes for the Automaton
ISBN: 9780816691135
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Minnesota Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Robotics -- History; Automation -- History;

In readings of texts by Lafayette, Moli re, Laclos, and La Bruy reOCoand in a chapter on the eighteenth-century inventor of automatons, Jacques VaucansonOCoCatherine Liu provides a fascinating account of ways in which the automaton and the preindustrial machine haunt the imagination of ancien r(r)gime France and structure key moments of the canonical literature and criticism of the period.OC Copying Machines establishes Liu's reputation in all her diverse fields as a leading thinker/writer. Liu invokes the automaton as ironic departure from the machine histories of media-technologization.OCO -Laurence A. Rickels, author of The Vampire Lectures"


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