by Steven Connor
- Author(s)
- Steven Connor
- Publication
- London : Open Humanities Press, 2017
- Scope
- 216 Pages, 23 cm.
- ISBN
- 9781785420368
Dream Machines is a history of imaginary machines and the ways in which machines come to be imagined. It considers seven different kinds of speculative, projected or impossible machine: machines for teleportation, dream-production, sexual pleasure and medical treatment and cure, along with ‘influencing machines’, invisibility machines and perpetual motion machines. The process of imagining ideal or impossible forms of machinery tends backwards or inwards, allowing a way for imagination itelf to be conceived as a kind of machinery, or ingenious engineering. Machines suggest to us ways of imagining the machinery we take ourselves to be, the workings not only of immune systems and neural networks, but also of dreams, desires and aspirations.
- Person as subject
- Marcel Duchamp, …[et al.]
- Keywords
- science fiction , imagination , machines
- Location
- Cabinet 9 - 5: Kunst stromingen en thema's
- Remarks
- Incl. bibliographical references and Index.
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