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Porush, David

 
9780815355670: The Soft Machine: Cybernetic Fiction (Routledge Library Editions: Artificial Intelligence)
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ISBN 10: 081535567X ISBN 13: 9780815355670
Editorial: Routledge, 2020

Sinopsis

The Soft Machine, originally published in 1985, represents a significant contribution to the study of contemporary literature in the larger cultural and scientific context. David Porush shows how the concepts of cybernetics and artificial intelligence that have sparked our present revolution in computer and information technology have also become the source for images and techniques in our most highly sophisticated literature, postmodern fiction by Barthelme, Barth, Pynchon, Beckett, Burroughs, Vonnegut and others.

With considerable skill, Porush traces the growth of "the metaphor of the machine" as it evolves both technologically and in literature of the twentieth century. He describes the birth of cybernetics, gives one of the clearest accounts for a lay audience of its major concepts and shows the growth of philosophical resistance to the mechanical model for human intelligence and communication which cybernetics promotes, a model that had grown increasingly influential in the previous decade. The Soft Machine shows postmodern fiction synthesizing the inviting metaphors and concepts of cybernetics with the ideals of art, a synthesis that results in what Porush calls "cybernetic fiction" alive to the myths and images of a cybernetic age.

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Editorial
Routledge
Año de publicación
2020
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
081535567X
ISBN 13 
9780815355670
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
258
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Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis
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9780416378702: Soft Machine: Cybernetic Fiction

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ISBN 10:  0416378706 ISBN 13:  9780416378702
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