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• Renaissance Robotics: Leonardo da Vinci's Lost Knight and Enlivened Materiality

  Author(s):

  Anne Pasek (see profile)

  Date:

  2014

  Subject(s):

  Art, History, Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519, Materialism, Sociology, Science--Study and teaching, Technology--Study and teaching

  Item Type:

  Article

  Tag(s):

  automaton, Descartes, Art history, Leonardo da Vinci, New materialism, Science and technology studies (STS)

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• ‘It Would Be without Error’: Automated Technology and the Pursuit of Correct Performance in the French Enlightenment

  Author(s):

  Rebecca Cypess (see profile)

  Date:

  2017

  Subject(s):

  Performance practice (Music), Musicology

  Item Type:

  Article

  Tag(s):

  automatons, mechanical music, French Enlightenment, Performance practice

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  ... -harpsichord; behind it is an automaton playing the flute, its pedestal left open to show the mechanism that drives it ...

  
  

• “Stutter-Stop Flash-Bulb Strange”: GMOs and the Aesthetics of Scale in Paolo Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl

  Author(s):

  Scott Selisker (see profile)

  Date:

  2015

  Group(s):

  Ecocriticism , GS Speculative Fiction, Speculative and Science Fiction, TC Science and Literature

  Subject(s):

  Literature and science, Speculative fiction

  Item Type:

  Article

  Tag(s):

  automaton, GMO, scale, Environment

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  ... , and particularly the cinematic trope of the automaton. I characterize these borrowings, and consequently much ...

  
  

• "Simply by Reacting?": The Sociology of Race and Invisible Man's Automata

  Author(s):

  Scott Selisker (see profile)

  Date:

  2011

  Group(s):

  American Literature, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, Speculative and Science Fiction, TC Race and Ethnicity Studies, TC Science and Literature

  Subject(s):

  American literature--African American authors, American literature, Literature and science, Race relations, Ethnic relations

  Item Type:

  Article

  Tag(s):

  automaton, African American literature, Sociology of race and ethnic relations

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  ... of electrified and apparently dancing black bodies and mechanical automaton dolls, to this perplexing final ...

  
  

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