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J. Adam JohnsPublication Details
BookUniversity of Alabama Press2008Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS217.T43 J64 2008 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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He explores several works by historians of technology, focusing in detail on the works of literary critic Lewis Mumford, whose examinations of Herman Melville’s novels provide an early example of critical interest in the abandonment of progress as a value.He goes on to study the works of William Faulkner and Ralph Ellison, focusing on the convergence of technology and race - machines and slavery - and highlights the ways that these writers have portrayed humans as reduced to machines, evidence that technological “progress’ is not always progressive, or liberating to humanity.The conclusion argues for a shift in our understanding of the relationship between technology and time. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
Contents
- The garden in the machine
- Melville, the pyramid, and the machine
- Mumford, Melville, and megatechnics
- Faulkner, dead time, and the southern machine
- Ellison and the technological hero
- conclusion: telos, bios, techne
ISBN
- 9780817316259
- 0817316256
- 9780817380526
- 0817380523
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