Copellia

[Dave Monroe]

On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 9:59 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm always interested by how damn often in the human (at least
> western) imagination we imagine our creations will rebel against us
> eventually. Robots, especially - it's as if we're sure they'll try to
> kill us all as soon as they're smart enough to think like us....

E.g., ...

Kang, Minsoo.  Sublime Dreams of Living Machines:
   The Automaton in the European Imagination.
   Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2011.

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674049352
http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=1211&msg=169508
https://archive.org/details/SublimeDreamsOfLivingMachinesTheAutomatonInTheEuropeanImaginationBy

Rushing, Janice Hocker and Thomas S. Frentz.
   Projecting the Shadow: The Cyborg Hero in American Film.
   Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1995.

http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo3637312.html

Telotte, J.P.  Replications:
   A Robotic History of the Science Fiction Film
   Urbana, IL: U of Illinois P, 1995.

http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/73tdr6fx9780252021770.html

> Has extra connotations for the US, given that it's a creation that did
> (successfully) rebel against its creator.

Mayr, Otto.  Authority, Liberty and Automatic Machinery in
   Early Modern Europe.  Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins UP, 1986

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http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0103&msg=53607
http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0103&msg=53608
http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0103&msg=53654
http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0103&msg=53655
http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0205&msg=67077

Cf., e.g., ...

Melley, Timothy.  Empire of Conspiracy:
   The Culture of Paranoia in Postwar America.
   Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 2000.

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