Tiffany, "The Lyric Automaton" (Kleist, de Man)

[Dave Monroe]

... did a little searching on yr behalf, Keith (my two-handed search engine 
that could, and did, of choice is http://www.google.com) and, while perhaps 
I might have found more were "my" French rather more "mine," did find the 
following scraps which might be of use:

http://www.uelectric.com/pastimes/drawer.htm

http://www.autrement-dit.com/automates/bibliotheque/articles/jaquetdroz.htm

Not terribly hillbillian, but ...

But also came across that Silvio Bedini paper, "The Role of Automata in the 
History of Technology," from Technology and Culture 5, No. 1 (Winter 1964) 
online @ http://xroads.virginia.edu/~DRBR/b_edini.html.
Do check out that issue in print, however, esp. the Derek J. de Solla Price 
essay ("Automata and the Origins of Mechanism and Mechnistic Philosophy") as 
well.

Also stumbled across the following, which perhaps Kai esp. might groove on 
(as ver kids DON'T say these days, I suppose, but ...): 
http://vallejo.phil3.uni-freiburg.de/1999/strehovec.html.  Benjamin, 
Burroughs, Gibson, Heidegger, Hoffmann, Sterling, the Strugatskys (Roadside 
Picnic, by the way, was filmed by Andrei Tarkovsky as Stalker ... twice, 
apparently ...), Virilio ...

The folowing suggests, at least, an articulation betwixt the technological, 
the libidinal, and the historically catastrophic: 
http://www2.dom.de/groebel/jnech/sexmach.html.  Illustrated @
http://www.phil.uni-sb.de/projekte/HBKS/TightRope/issue.1/texte/joseph_eng.html. 
  And note, again, that notion of "bachelor machines" (Michel Carrouges), 
recalling evocations of "The Bride" here ...

This looks promising, but, again, in my case, that language barrier: 
http://www.erudit.org/erudit/theologi/v07n02/gagnon/gagnon.htm.

Well, as always, let me know ...


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