| The Melancholy Android: On the Psychology of Sacred Machines Contributor(s): Wilson, Eric G. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0791468461 ISBN-13: 9780791468463 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $32.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2006 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Technology & Engineering | Social Aspects - Computers | Social Aspects - Technology & Engineering | Robotics |
| Dewey: 154.3 |
| LCCN: 2005027975 |
| Physical Information: 0.45" H x 6.06" W x 9.02" (0.56 lbs) 180 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Melancholy Android is a psychological study of the impulses behind the creation of androids. Exploring three imaginative figures--the mummy, the golem, and the automaton--and their appearances in myth, religion, literature, and film, Eric G. Wilson tracks the development of android-building and examines the lure of artificial doubles untroubled by awareness of self. Drawing from the works of philosophers Ficino, Kleist, Freud, and Jung; writers Goethe, Coleridge, Shelley, and Poe; and movies such as Metropolis, The Mummy, and Blade Runner, this book not only offers a range of sites from which to analyze the relationship between mind and machine, but also considers a pressing paradoxical dilemma--loving machines we want to hate. |