Flesh to Metal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Flesh to Metal write by Rolf Hellebust. This book was released on 2018-08-06. Flesh to Metal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "That science-fiction future in which technology would make everything very good—or very bad—has not yet arrived. From our vantage point at least, no age appears to have had a deeper faith in the inevitability and imminence of such a total technological transformation than the early twentieth century. Russia was no exception."—from the introduction In the Soviet Union, it seems, armoring oneself against the world did not suffice—it was best to become metal itself. In his engaging and accessible book, Rolf Hellebust explores the aesthetic and ideological function of the metallization of the revolutionary body as revealed in Soviet literature, art, and politics. His book shows how the significance of this modern myth goes far beyond the immediate issue of the enthusiasm with which the Bolsheviks welcomed such a symbolic transfiguration and that of our own uneasy attraction to the images of metal flesh and machine-men. Hellebust's literary examples range from the famous (Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago) to the forgotten (early Soviet proletarian poets). To these he adds a mix of non-Russian references, from creation myths to comic book superheroes, medieval alchemy to Moby-Dick. He includes readings of posters, sculpture, and political discourse as well as cross-cultural comparisons to revolutionary France, industrial-age America, and Nazi Germany. The result is a fascinating portrait of the ultimate symbols of dehumanizing modernity, as refracted through the prism of utopian humanism.
Metal and Flesh
Metal and Flesh - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Metal and Flesh write by Ollivier Dyens. This book was released on 2001-10-12. Metal and Flesh available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A poetic exploration of the new world created by the collision of the biological body with technology and culture. For more than 3,000 years, humans have explored uncharted geographic and spiritual realms. Present-day explorers face new territories born from the coupling of living tissue and metal, strange lifeforms that are intelligent but unconscious, neither completely alive nor dead. Our bodies are now made of machines, images, and information. We are becoming cultural bodies in a world inhabited by cyborgs, clones, genetically modified animals, and innumerable species of human/information symbionts. Ollivier Dyens's Metal and Flesh is about two closely related phenomena: the technologically induced transformation of our perceptions of the world and the emergence of a cultural biology. Culture, according to Dyens, is taking control of the biosphere. Focusing on the twentieth century—which will be remembered as the century in which the living body was blurred, molded, and transformed by technology and culture—Dyens ruminates on the undeniable and irreversible human/machine entanglement that is changing the very nature of our lives.
Flesh to Metal
Flesh to Metal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Flesh to Metal write by Rolf Hellebust. This book was released on 2003. Flesh to Metal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A special material : the meaning of metal imagery -- Forging the future : proletarian poetry and revolutionary transformation -- Anvil to blast furnace : metal imagery in socialist realism -- The Metaphor realized : fellow travelers and thereafter -- The Beginning and end of history : metallization and myth.
Flesh and Metal
Flesh and Metal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Flesh and Metal write by Man. This book was released on 2005-01-31. Flesh and Metal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "In a not too distant future, cyborgs rule the earth in a society filled with vice, corruption and murder, the powerful few exploiting the masses of humans. Knowing which is which is not easy, however, and the seduction of the perfect dream bodies of the humanoid robots is very strong indeed. Man vs. machine in a sex showdown!"--Cover.
Clash of Flesh and Metal
Clash of Flesh and Metal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Clash of Flesh and Metal write by Alicia Ellis. This book was released on 2021-04-20. Clash of Flesh and Metal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. She must obey a stranger's orders, or the androids will attack again… Despite Lena's fears about the dangers of the Model One androids, CyberCorp has shipped them to customers. They work perfectly—except around Lena. When an android attacks one of her best friends, she insists the robots are fatally flawed. Desperate to keep this situation from spiraling out of control, like it did last time, Lena casts suspicion on everyone she knows. This time, she won't trust anyone. When she gets a threatening note from someone claiming to be controlling the androids, she'll obey—but only to stall for time. Can she find whoever's responsible, before someone else she loves dies?
