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The Postmodern Turn gathers together in one volume some of the most important statements of the postmodern approach to human studies. In addressing postmodern social theory and emphasising the social role of knowledge, this book abandons the disciplinary boundaries separating the sciences and the humanities. The first collection of its kind, it provides the classic essays of authors such as Lyotard, Haraway, Foucault and Rorty. Contributors include well-known theorists in the fields of sociology, anthropology, women's and gay studies, philosophy, and history.
Between 1750 and 1850 the attention of philosophers, natural scientists, and engineers was focused on machines and mechanical movements. The most fascinating creations in the realm of mechanics and Utopia (1) were automata, devices that move by themselves. The greatest achievements in this nature-imitating world were androids, automata simulating human bodies (2). This article concentrates on the hidden meanings of these androids. These walking, talking, writing, and music playing imitations of human beings did not only interest scientists and inventors. They seduced the public in nearly all the European capitals. The exhibition of automata was an important science oriented attraction in the 18th century, and was both amusing and embarrassing.
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We are living through a time when old identities--nation, culture and ethnicity--are melting down. Spaces of Identity examines the ways in which collective cultural identities are being reshaped under conditions of a postmodern geography in the communications environment
of cable and satellite broadcasting. To address current problems of identity, the authors look at the contemporary politics of the relations between Europe and its most significant others--America, Islam and the Orient. They show that it is against these that Europe's own identity has
been and is now being defined. Spaces of Identity is a stimulating account of the complex and contradictory nature of contemporary cultural identities.
This book develops a fresh and challenging perspective on the city. Drawing on a wide and diverse range of material and texts, it argues that too much contemporary urban theory is based on nostalgia for a humane, face-to-face and bounded city. Amin and Thrift maintain that the traditional divide between the city and the rest of the world has been perforated through urban encroachment, the thickening of the links between the two, and urbanization as a way of life. They outline an innovative sociology of the city that scatters urban life along a series of sites and circulations, reinstating previously suppressed areas of contemporary urban life: from the presence of non-human activity to the centrality of distant connections. The implications of this viewpoint are traced through a series of chapters on power, economy and democracy. This concise and accessible book will be of interest to students and scholars in sociology, geography, urban studies, cultural studies and politics.
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