"Genuine made-in-Americans" : living machines and the technological body in the postwar science fiction imaginary, 1944-1968
The science fiction imaginary of mid-twentieth century America often takes as its subjects all manner of animate objects --- living machines like robots, cyborgs, automata, androids, and intelligent "thinking" computers. These living machines embody early cold war anxieties about the relat...
Main Author: | Mann, Kimberly Lynn |
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Format: | Others |
Language: | English |
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W&M ScholarWorks
2014
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Online Access: | https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539720301 https://scholarworks.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5173&context=etd |
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