New Romantic Cyborgs: Romanticism, Information Technology, and the End of the Machine

by Mark Coeckelbergh

An account of the complex relationship between technology and romanticism that links nineteenth-century monsters, automata, and mesmerism with twenty-first-century technology's magic devices and romantic cyborgs.

Romanticism and technology are widely assumed to be opposed to each other. Romanticism--understood as a reaction against rationalism and objectivity--is perhaps the last thing users and developers of information and communication...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262035464
• ISBN13: 9780262035460
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher