The Melancholy Android

[Joe Allonby]

...and of course, Marvin the Paranoid Android.



On 6/14/06, Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Wilson, Eric G.  The Melancholy Android:
>    On the Psychology of Sacred Machines.
>    Albany: SUNY Press, 2006.
>
> The Melancholy Android is a psychological study of the
> impulses behind the creation of androids. Exploring
> three imaginative figures—the mummy, the golem, and
> the automaton—and their appearances in myth, religion,
> literature, and film, Eric G. Wilson tracks the
> development of android-building and examines the lure
> of artificial doubles untroubled by awareness of self.
> Drawing from the works of philosophers Ficino, Kleist,
> Freud, and Jung; writers Goethe, Coleridge, Shelley,
> and Poe; and movies such as Metropolis, The Mummy, and
> Blade Runner, this book not only offers a range of
> sites from which to anaylze the relationship between
> mind and machine, but also considers a pressing
> paradoxical dilemma—loving machines we want to hate.
>
> http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=61314
>
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