The Machine Prevails: A Modern Technological Theme

Clark, John R. "The Machine Prevails: A Modern Technological Theme." JPC 12.1 (Summer 1978): 118-27.

Brief, broad survey—including fiction, film, TV, and comics—of ambivalent attitudes toward technology from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (seen as a central work) through DR. STRANGELOVE, Gravity's Rainbow, and 2001 (taking the machine/body period of the ETs for the ETs as they act in human history in the novel). Stresses Romantic, post-Romantic, and modernist responses.

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