Adelheid Voskuhl

The Android and the Machine: Materialism, Mechanicism, and Industrialism in the Early and Late Modern Ages

2018 · SubStance

The trope of the "man-machine" and its material manifestation–the mechanical android–have seemingly been able to focus forcefully and effortlessly across early-modern and modern periods such diverse issues as the matter/spirit dualism, anxieties about the mechanical …