Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Reihe: Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture
Cultures of Automation
Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Reihe: Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture
ISBN: 978-1-032-89587-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Automation is everywhere: in the supermarket, in home appliances, and on our commutes. While we worry what automation means for human autonomy now, human societies have long wondered about their replacement by machines. The Human and the Machine in Literature and Culture explores the pervasive – and long-standing – influence of automation on humanity by dismantling the prevalent future-oriented perspective of many automation debates. This collection examines how literature has conceptualised automation over centuries, from utopian visions of a world liberated from work and domestic labour to dystopian futures in which humans are surplus to requirements. We set out social and industrial developments which feed into discourses of automation and its mediation in literary cultures. By bringing together theoretical approaches to real-world automation with readings of its literary interpretations, this volume demonstrates literature’s role as a space for hypothesizing alternate realities, making clear literature’s propensity to inform our attitudes to real-world phenomena.
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Acknowledgements
Introduction. Automation: This Time It’s (Probably Not) Different
Kate Foster
1.‘What we need is more automation’: Automation Debates in the Postwar Period
Ben Roberts
2. When the Clock Took the Floor: Technology as Non-Human Actor in Augusto De Angelis’ Detective Novel Il Banchiere Assassinato (1935)
Emanuele Stefanori
3. On the Threshold of Life and Death: Guido Cavalcanti and the Medieval Automaton
Rebecca Reilly
4. Monsters, Mechanics, and Automatic Writing in E.T.A. Hoffman’s ‘The Sandman’ and Gérard de Nerval’s ‘Aurélia’
Vanessa Weller
5. Forms of Computation in Hjalmar Söderberg’s and Thomas Mann’s Decadent Short Stories
Laura Alice Chapot
6. Prosthetic Verse: Technology, Embodiment, and Disability in French Poetry (1984-2024)
Léon Pradeau
7. Postcolonial Agency vs. ‘French Automation’ in Mounsi’s Territoire d’Outre-Ville
David Spieser-Landes
8. Humans in the Loop as Post-Literary Ghosts: Discomfort and Disruption on Amazon Mechanical Turk
Bruno Ministro
9. Bricolage, Wild Thought, and the Automation of Knowledge
Madeleine Chalmers
Coda
Molly Crozier
Index