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  • Man's Machine-Made Millennium
    '''Maxim, Hudson. "Man's Machine-Made Millennium."''' ''Cosmopolitan Magazine'' 45.6 (Nov. 1908). [[Category ...iterature]] Note date for conflicts in the Zeitgeist: E. M. Forster's "The Machine Stops," was published in 1909. [[Category: Fiction]]
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  • Machine Man
    ...ing both a published first draft and a "meta-work (''The Annotated Machine Man'')": see "Acknowledgments" (pp. [275]-76).[https://maxbarry.com/] ...nality uploading into a data-storage device, and other tropes on the human/machine interface and interpenetration.
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  • The Machine Man
    '''Richter, Johann Paul Friedrich (writing as "Jean Paul"). "The Machine Man."''' 1789. Cited in Gerhart Hoffmeister, ''European Romanticism: Literary C
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  • Man, Android, and Machine
    '''Dick, Philip K. "Man, Android, and Machine."''' ''Science Fiction at Large''. Peter Nicholls, ed. New York: Harper, 19
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  • Man a Machine
    ...least in part in English translation on line.[http://bactra.org/LaMettrie/Machine/] ...ts, biologists and philosophers; especially in the form of the thesis that man is a computer." (note 2: ''Of Clouds and Clocks'', included in ''Objective
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  • A Phenomonology of Man-Machine Relations
    '''Ihde, Don. "A Phenomenology of Man-Machine Relations."''' In ''Work, Technology, and Education'', q.v. under this Cate ...e psychology of man-machine relations," starting with the notion "that the machine. . . may be thought of as a 'means' of relating to the world"—one of our
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  • Iron Man/War Machine comic series
    ''Iron Man/War Machine'' comic series, 1990s.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Man]
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  • Kraftwerk, Die Mensch/Maschine (The Man/Machine)
    '''Kraftwerk. Die Mensch•Maschine (The Man•Machine).''') Electrola, 1C058-32843, 1978. ...gory, P. Townshend's The Iron Man, Owl's song [[The Iron Man: The Musical|"Man Machines]]."
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  • Images of the Man-Machine Intelligence Relationship in Science Fiction
    '''Warrick, Patricia S. "Images of the Man-Machine Intelligence Relationship in Science Fiction."''' ''Many Futures, Many Worl
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  • Human, More or Less: Man-Machine Communion in Samuel R. Delany's Nova and Other Science Fiction Stories
    '''Gordon, Andrew. "Human, More or Less: Man-Machine Communion in Samuel R. Delany's ''Nova'' and Other Science Fiction Stories.
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  • A Phenomonology of Man-Machine Relations
    '''Ihde, Don. "A Phenomenology of Man-Machine Relations."''' In ''Work, Technology, and Education'', q.v. under this Cate ...e psychology of man-machine relations," starting with the notion "that the machine. . . may be thought of as a 'means' of relating to the world"—one of our
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  • Human-Machine Transistor
    ...day, 2 June 2010. <http://news.discovery.com/tech/transistor-cell-membrane-machine.html> The device is the most intimate binding of man and machine yet achieved.
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  • Man's Machine-Made Millennium
    '''Maxim, Hudson. "Man's Machine-Made Millennium."''' ''Cosmopolitan Magazine'' 45.6 (Nov. 1908). [[Category ...iterature]] Note date for conflicts in the Zeitgeist: E. M. Forster's "The Machine Stops," was published in 1909. [[Category: Fiction]]
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  • The Myth of the Machine
    '''Mumford, Lewis. ''The Myth of the Machine''.''' Vol. l, ''Technics and Human Development'', 1966, 1967. Vol. 2, ''The ...ions, as technicians now interpret man's role, will either be fed into the machine or strictly limited and controlled for the benefit of de-personalized, coll
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  • Man Plus
    '''Pohl, Frederik. ''Man Plus''.''' New York: Random, 1976. [[Category: Fiction]] ...al of success, to manipulate human history. Note for theme of the cyborg, "machine intelligence" and consciousness (AI), and computer take-over, both of an in
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  • The Measure of Man
    '''Krutch, Joseph Wood. ''The Measure of Man: On Freedom, Human Values, Survival and the Modern Temper''.''' (c) 1953, 1 ...n B. F. Skinner's ''[[Walden Two]]'' (q.v. under Fiction), ". . . Man is a machine" (35); the attack on Skinner is a motif in ''MoM'').
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  • The Machine Man
    '''Richter, Johann Paul Friedrich (writing as "Jean Paul"). "The Machine Man."''' 1789. Cited in Gerhart Hoffmeister, ''European Romanticism: Literary C
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  • Necromancer
    '''Dickson, Gordon R. ''Necromancer''''' (vt ''No Room for Man''). Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1962. Issued as "An Ace Science Fiction Boo ...keep Man "swaddled by the machine" (157, 118-119). Cf. E. M. Forster, "The Machine Stops" (listed above).[[Category: Fiction]]
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  • The Contrapuntal Design of Artificial Evolution in Asimov's "The Bicentennial Man"
    ...Contrapuntal Design of Artificial Evolution in Asimov's 'The Bicentennial Man.'"''' ''Extrapolation'' 22.3 (Fall 1981): 231-41. [[Category: Literary Crit ...n to explore new territory: the ethical and philosophical implications for man in creating high-level intelligence" (235).
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  • Moby-Dick
    ...extile-mill universe (quotations from section 3 of ch. 5, L. Marx, ''[[The Machine in the Garden]]'', q.v.
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  • Masks
    ...echanical devices. Discussed in Andrew Gordon's [[Human, More or Less: Man-Machine Communion in Samuel R. Delany's Nova and Other Science Fiction Stories|essa
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  • Brain and Dualism in Star Trek
    ...ed into machine minds," "Machine mind to human" mind, and "Machine mind to machine mind." Specifics given under individual episodes. "[[Star Trek: The Next Generation, "The Schizoid Man"|The Schizoid Man]]"
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  • MAN Diesel Engines
    ...reference as to the engine’s size."[https://oldmachinepress.com/2017/12/20/man-double-acting-diesel-marine-engines/] ...other works in the first third or so of the 20th century. The photo of the MAN diesel marine engine — suitable for a battleship — dwarfing men is inst
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  • TIN MAN
    '''TIN MAN.''' John G. Thomas, dir., prod. USA: Goldfarb/Thomas-Biston & Westcom, 1983 ...TION_FILMS], vol. III). Contrast more negative view of machines in THE TIN MAN (1935).[[Category: Drama]]
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  • Pilgrims Through Space and Time
    ...sses, passim, a number of works showing "man's slavery to the Machine in a Machine age" (ch. 6, B: 148). Handles well-known works such as A. Huxley's ''[[Brav
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  • GHOST IN THE MACHINE (film)
    ''Ghost in the Machine''. Rachel Talalay, dir. USA: 20th Century Fox, 1993. Karen Allen, Chris ...THE LAWNMOWER MAN]]; computer-generated SpFx similar to those in LAWNMOWER MAN and [[TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY]].
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  • I Want to Be a Machine
    ...Release date 25 February 1977.[https://genius.com/Ultravox-i-want-to-be-a-machine-lyrics] As of April 2023, available on YouTube with clips from [[METROPOLIS ...be a machine". Cf. and contrast [[Kraftwerk, Die Mensch/Maschine (The Man/Machine)]] (1978).
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  • Ghost in the Machine
    ''Ghost in the Machine''. [[Talalay, Rachel|Rachel Talalay]], dir. USA: 20th Century Fox, 1993. ...THE LAWNMOWER MAN]]; computer-generated SpFx similar to those in LAWNMOWER MAN and [[TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY]]. (RDE, 01/12/95)
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  • Techno-Monsters
    ...science fiction challenges us to find the humanity in the machine and the machine in humanity" (51).
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  • Man a Machine
    ...least in part in English translation on line.[http://bactra.org/LaMettrie/Machine/] ...ts, biologists and philosophers; especially in the form of the thesis that man is a computer." (note 2: ''Of Clouds and Clocks'', included in ''Objective
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  • HardWired
    ...ce felt by a man preserved as computer program who really wants out of the machine and into a body, but still manages to have cybernetic fun—and help his wo
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  • Kraftwerk, The Robots
    ..."The Robots". ''[[Kraftwerk, Die Mensch/Maschine (The Man/Machine)|The Man-Machine]]''.''' Ralf Hunter and Karl Barton, lyrics (English and Russian) © Warner
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  • Machine (critical essay)
    '''Rose, Mark. "Machine."''' Ch. 6 of ''Alien Encounters: An Anatomy of Science Fiction''. Cambridg ...icism, includes an excellent discussion of "the opposition between man and machine" in the "narrative foreground" of 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, and of the resolut
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  • Nova
    ...Literary Criticism the TMG essay by A. Gordon, "[[Human, More or Less: Man-Machine Communion in Samuel R. Delany's Nova and Other Science Fiction Stories]]".[ ...at lunchtime, then turned things off before he left in the evening. Now a man went to a factory, plugged himself in, and he could push the raw materials
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  • Human Robots in Myth and Science
    ...es of robot-makers -- Robots in the recent past and immediate future -- Is man a robot?"
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  • Three Men Make a World
    ...Unborn Tomorrow'', ''Deluge'', ''Down'', ''Gay Hunter'', and, q.v., "[[The Machine Stops]]." ...period of famine and disease Britain becomes a land of small kingdoms. The machine is the symbol and the cause of evil [...]."
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  • Zamiatin's We
    ...erground Man and Anarchists and freedom against advocates for totalitarian machine-states. See elsewhere in this Category, GB's other work on ''We''.
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  • Behold the Man
    ..., here.[https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?41617] Novel: ''Behold the Man''. London, UK: Allison & Busby, 1969. See for technology-mediated time travel where, "The machine itself, shaped like a womb and insulated with fluid to reduce the shock of
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  • The Mask of Circe
    ...ructed by Hephaestus":[https://www.theoi.com/Olympios/Hephaistos.html] the man "so enfolds Apollo in its fabric that the god's solar power is forced inwar
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  • Iron Man/War Machine comic series
    ''Iron Man/War Machine'' comic series, 1990s.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Man]
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  • Twilight Zone: "The Old Man in the Cave"
    '''''Twilight Zone'': "The Old Man in the Cave." Rod Serling, script.''' Original series, season 5, episode 7 ...he accuracy of his advice, the townspeople are so enraged they destroy the machine. (And without its guidance, they subsequently die.)"
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  • The Computer and Man
    '''Lamie, Edward L., and Joe De Bolt. "The Computer and Man: The Human Uses of Non-Human Beings."''' ''The Happening Worlds of John Bru ...s on Shalmaneser in ''Stand on Zanzibar'', and on the city as organism and machine in "Bloodstream" (both cited above, under Fiction).
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  • The Gates of Ivory, The Gates of Horn
    ..., "Man is an appendage to the machine" (71)—but where the most significant machine is the apparatus of the State. Cf. F. Kafka's ''The Trial'' (1925) — plus
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  • Bloodstream
    ...elf-regulating biological machine" (E. Lamie and J. De Bolt, "Computer and Man" essay, q.v. under Literary Criticism).[[Category: Fiction]]
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  • Man, Android, and Machine
    '''Dick, Philip K. "Man, Android, and Machine."''' ''Science Fiction at Large''. Peter Nicholls, ed. New York: Harper, 19
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  • Heavy Metal
    ...f the text informs us that "THE HIVE IS A SUBTERRANEAN WORLD WHERE MAN AND MACHINE ARE ONE." Some of the artwork gets across this idea.
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  • NOT QUITE HUMAN
    ...e toy-maker villains' attempt to turn the android ("Chip") into a fighting machine, cf. the film Toys. Note also Frankenstein motif of fatherhood without a mo
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  • Plus
    ...memories. See D. Porush, "The Imp in the Machine," ch. 9 of his [[The Soft Machine (literary analysis)]] (q.v. under Literary Criticism). See in this Category
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  • Kubrick's 2001: A Triple Allegory
    ...s Nietzsche insists in ''Also Sprach Zarathustra'', by man in the image of man. CAUTION: ''Triple Allegory'' is a provocative and often useful study but
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  • Technological Man: The Myth and the Reality
    '''Ferkiss, Victor C. ''Technological Man: The Myth and the Reality'''''. New York: Mentor, 1969. New York: Brazier, ....][https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/victor-ferkiss/technological-man/]
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  • I Feed the Machine
    '''Stone, Del Jr. "I Feed the Machine."''' ''[[Live Without a Net]]''. Lou Anders, editor.''' New York City: Roc, ...hine,' the nameless narrator explains the story's setup: 'The machine is a man. He is called a Tabulator. He performs calculations, and he is the company'
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  • THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (2014)
    '''THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2''', (2014). Marc Webb, dir. Alex Kurtzman et al., script, screen story (s ...ank with heavy machine guns. A moment of great loss in Peter Parker/Spider-Man's life is associated with the literal clockwork of a huge clock. Cf. and co
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  • Umbral Anthology of Science Fiction Poetry
    ..."; Andrew Joron, "The Tetrahedron Letters"; William Srafford, "The Thought Machine." See our section on Fiction (and Poetry).
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  • The Industrial Photographs of Lewis Wickes Hine and Margaret Bourke-White
    ...over the machine, Bourke-White seems not to have appreciated or understood man's relationship to industrialized society. To her, machines were a series of
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  • Asleep: With Still Hands
    ...the motif of gentle control—exercised in this story by a world-ruling man/machine being.[[Category: Fiction]]
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  • To Howard Hughes: A Modest Proposal
    ...usefully in Stanley Kubrick's film, ''[[Dr. Strangelove]]'', "the Doomsday Machine"; the nuclear powers of Earth will give up their weapons, or else. (RDE, 22
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  • The Leda (film anthology segment)
    ...e the more mundane kind — "who is a murderer." The murderer becomes a "man-machine," which is an improvement. The machine part is Bethany's ship's computer who earlier "struggles to write poems" to
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  • Survey of Science Fiction Literature
    ...son's Humanoids stories, and other works useful for the study of the human/machine interface in SF.
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  • Man and Technics
    '''Spengler, Oswald. ''Man and Technics''': A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life''. London: Alfred A ...sis [Karel] Čapek had put forward in the play of ''[[R. U. R.|R.U.R.]]'' A machine civilization was the contradiction of the natural and spontaneous; and the
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  • Work, Technology, and Education: Dissenting Essays in the Intellectual Foundations of American Education
    ...other element to be shaped, molded, and conditioned to the requirements of machine production" (Introduction 11).
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  • Creatures of Light and Darkness
    ...chine (all memories previous to the thousand years have been erased.) As a machine that does not breathe and has a nervous system of wire, Wakim is asked if h ...es — up to and including in ''Creatures'' "the distinction between god and man":
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  • The Time Machine
    ...d still controversial). Frequently rpt., including ''H. G. Wells: The Time Machine [and] War of the Worlds: A Critical Edition''. Frank D. McConnell, ed. New Note also the time machine itself, probably the second in Western literature, after ''[[The Anacronóp
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  • Soloflex TV commercial
    ...the geometric regularities of the male physique by putting the figure of a man inside a circle and square.
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  • For a Breath I Tarry
    ...requently rpt., including in ''Survival Printout'', and T''he Theme of the Machine''—both cited above under Anthologies. See Contento, ''Index'', for additi ...here only the machines remain and rule, a machine transforms itself into a man. Discussed in detail in three essays in ''TMG'': see under Literary Critici
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  • Townshend, Pete, et al., The Iron Man (Twelve Songs from the Musical)
    '''Townshend, Pete, et al. ''The Iron Man''''' (Twelve Songs from the Musical by Pete Townshend). © Heavy Metabolics ...ee in this Category, Kraftwerk's [[Kraftwerk, Die Mensch/Maschine (The Man/Machine)|Die Mensch·Maschine]].
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  • AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR
    ...and improved hammer. We have the image of a potentially-dying god within a machine, illuminated and suffering to recover his powers so he can rejoin the effor * An adolescent Spider-Man in Tony-Stark-style Iron-Man Spidey-suit, complete in some shots with all eight legs of a proper spider.
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  • Twilight
    ...ion: A Historical Anthology]]'' (see under Anthologies and Collections). ''Man Unwept: Visions from the Inner Eye''. Stephen V. Whaley and Stanley J. Cook ...advanced machine to make "something which can take man's place: 'A curious machine'"—implying that curiosity is the defining trait for humanity (quoting J.
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  • The Grapes of Wrath
    ...n the cellular life of humanity in [[Forster, E. M.|E. M. Forster]]'s "The Machine Stops" (1909; see above, this section). Contrast positive, "dancing," tract
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  • Aspects of Utopian Fiction
    ...he Machine" (107-9, 111); Howard Fink on George Orwell and H. G. Wells on "machine-civilization," 54-55; D. Ketterer's article (cited this Category), Darko Su
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  • Machine Screw
    '''Sladek, John [T]. "Machine Screw."''' ''The Shape of Sex to Come.'' Douglas Hill, ed. London: Pan, 197 A very large "mechanical man with a penchant for raping cars" and other wheeled vehicles "is finally sat
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  • Gödel, Escher, Bach
    ..."author of ''[[Materialism (Britannica article)|L'homme machine ('Man, the Machine')]]'', and Materialist Par Excellence" (27). Attacking most directly J. R.
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  • Psychotron (song)
    ...ice told "Maybe not a mutant, maybe a man." See for this blurring of human/machine in a creature with a "computer on-board" and "Engaged in a war."
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  • Star Trek, "Court Martial"
    ...wn, and Cogley makes an impassioned speech on the rights of man versus the machine [...].[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_Martial_(Star_Trek:_The_Original ...than that, gentlemen. In the name of humanity, fading in the shadow of the machine, I demand it. I demand it!" As of 23 December 2023, more of Cogley's speech
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  • Tik-Tok and The Three Laws of Robotics
    ...Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics in its presentation of the Tik-Tok Machine Man (a kind of early robot).
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  • Joseph Stella's Man in Elevated (Train)
    '''Bohan, Ruth L. "Joseph Stella's ''Man in Elevated (Train)''."''' In ''Dada/Dimensions'', q.v. in this Category. [ ...tions, his concerns with the fourth dimension, and his fascination for the machine with Stella's own longstanding commitment to urban-technological themes" (1
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  • Wasn't the Future Wonderful?: A View of Trends and Technology From the 1930s
    ...ne''. See for earnest discussions of such topics as, "Is Man Doomed by the Machine Age" (18-23) and for text and copious illustrations of the great future of
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  • Sublime Dreams of Living Machines: The Automaton in the European Imagination
    ...ails appearances in Romantic literature and the introduction of the living machine in the Industrial Age. He concludes with a reflection on the destructive co [Kang has written] an evolving conceptual history of the automaton, “a machine that mimics a living being as an idea in the European imagination,” from
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  • The Modular Man
    [[Allen, Roger MacBride]]. <i>The Modular Man</i>. New York: Bantam, [1992]. (Bantam is part of Bantam Doubleday Dell [si ...sthesis: D. Knight's "Masks," C. L. Moore's "No Woman Born," and F. Pohl's Man Plus—all cited under Fiction. For economic issues, note J. Swift's Struld
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  • Law in Science Fiction: An Introduction
    ...Have Space Suit, Will Travel]]'' (1958), for a judge FL describes as "part machine a part a synergistic combination of representatives of many of the races of
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  • The Technological Society
    ...tably, in mechanization: technique transforms everything it touches into a machine" (4)—and ours is a "technological society." JE's more recent works includ
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  • WatchdØg
    ...h shook and the sky split as the giant rockets lifted the soul and body of man to Pluto and the distant stars. ...the machine city from ''[[Twilight]]'' (1934) by John Campbell, the games machine from ''[[The World of Null-A]]'' (1945) by AE van Vogt, central computer fr
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  • Dada: Performance, Poetry, and Art
    ...es and objects had on the meaning of art and then proceeds to link that to machine imagery in Dada (see W. Benjamin[http://www.clockworks2.org/wiki/index.php
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  • Baby
    ...s run a decaying mechanized world—a world where appeals to the gods of the machine and politeness are no longer efficacious.[[Category: Fiction]]
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  • DEMOLITION MAN
    '''DEMOLITION MAN.''' [[Brambilla, Marco|Marco Brambilla]], dir. USA: Silver Pictures (prod ...A. Schwarzenegger's cyberpunkish films — [[THE RUNNING MAN (film)|RUNNING MAN]], [[THE TERMINATOR]], [[TOTAL RECALL (1990)]]; for the motif of destructi
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  • The Claw of the Conciliator
    ...the addition of human parts. Although centrally a robot robot — “You are a machine,” he’s told by the protagonist — and alien to the home planet of the
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  • IRON MAN 2
    ...Favreau, dir. Justin Theroux, script. Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, et al., ''Iron Man'' comic by Marvel. USA: Paramount, Marvel Entertainment/Studios, Fairview E ...ites, see L. G. Heldreth's "In Search of the Ultimate Weapon: The Fighting Machine in Science Fiction Novels and Films," in T. Dunn and R. Erlich's ''The Mech
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  • Human, More or Less: Man-Machine Communion in Samuel R. Delany's Nova and Other Science Fiction Stories
    '''Gordon, Andrew. "Human, More or Less: Man-Machine Communion in Samuel R. Delany's ''Nova'' and Other Science Fiction Stories.
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  • Infernal Devices: A Mad Victorian Fantasy
    ...a abound," the hero is "hounded the length of the British Isles by man and machine." Using 19th-century technology, KWJ presents a story "both modern and a pa
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  • THE ELECTRIC LEG
    ...in this section. For a much more recent work, cf. and contrast ''[[Machine Man]]''.
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  • The Life and Times of Multivac
    ...c."''' ''New York Times Magazine'' 5 Jan. 1975. Coll. ''[[The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories]]'', q.v. under Anthologies and Collections. ...rity under Multivac as slavery. An expert in math games "kills" this world machine.
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  • Mechanocracy
    ...uer, Miles J. . "Mechanocracy."''' ''Amazing'' April 1932. Collected ''The Man with the Strange Head and Other Early Science Fiction Stories'' (Bison Fron ...[[METROPOLIS|Metropolis]]'' (1927). We see the theme of an all-controlling machine intelligence used frequently in later science fiction, as in Poul Anderson'
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  • Images of the Man-Machine Intelligence Relationship in Science Fiction
    '''Warrick, Patricia S. "Images of the Man-Machine Intelligence Relationship in Science Fiction."''' ''Many Futures, Many Worl
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  • Caporaletti, Silvana
    Caporaletti, Silvana. "Science as Nightmare: 'The Machine Stops' by E.M. Forster." ''Utopian Studies'' (Spring, 1997) <http://findart ...ucturelle is of a world in which technological automatization will restore man to the happy condition of a mythical golden era (235). Also Marshall McLuha
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  • BALLET MÉCHANIQUE
    ...r, dir., prod. (in collaboration with Dudley Murphy). France: Léger, 1926. Man Ray and Dudley Murphy, cinematography. George Antheil, music. [[Category: D Non-narrative avant-garde film by Léger, the great cubist celebrator of the Machine Age (cited by name under Graphics). Pieces of machinery are among the objec
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  • Gotham's Ultimate Criminal Mastermind
    ..., ''[[Artificial Intelligence: AI]]'', and assorted stories of threatening machine-made-machines by [[Dick, Philip K.|P. K. Dick]] and others. (RDE, 11/01/06)
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  • L'Eve future (The Future Eve)
    ...ugh each other" in this book, with woman as "the ideal machine invented by man" (in Penley 109). See also Arthur B. Evans, "Science Fiction in France . .
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  • The Man of the Year Million
    ...s an essay: ''Pall Mall Gazette'' 57.8931 (6 November 1893): p. 3; as "The Man of the Year Million: A Scientific Forecast", uncredited — <OpenPublishing ...Utopia]]'') as a possible goad for E. M. Foster's important story, "[[The Machine Stops]]" (e-post to SFRA ListServ 22 May 2021).
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  • From Technology to Transcendence: Humanity's Evolutionary Journey in 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
    ...ventually with bringing together humans and our machines as we become more machine-like, and "machines, we discover in the 'To Jupiter' segment may come to be ...nce computer" and in its AI capabilities, "the end result of technology: a machine that equals or exceeds human intelligence and far exceeds humanity's abilit
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  • Science Fiction and Computing
    ...ps]]” involves a control device that, while not exactly a universal Turing machine, represents an early expression of a sentiment that will preoccupy many lat ...King story and "the virtual reality movie" ''[[THE LAWNMOWER MAN|Lawnmower Man]]
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  • Gender, Technology, and the History of Technical Communication
    ...hnology and work may reduce the "Human/Machine Interface" in SF to the man/machine interface. See KTD's Works Cited for further readings; see in this Category
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  • The Mask
    ...ith the awakening consciousness of the robot that she is not a woman but a machine. Summarized by Warrick 197.[[http://www.clockworks2.org/wiki/index.php?titl
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  • Dr. Materialismus
    ...ture in MARATHON MAN) to subtle. Dr. Materialismus uses fictional advanced Machine Age vibration-producing mechanisms to manipulate the emotions of the protag About two hundred thousand vibrations make in man's cerebrum what you call passion; about four billion per second, that is gr
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  • Striking Cyborgs: Reworking the "Human" in Marge Piercy's He, She and It
    ...o invite us to read her cyborg, Yod, as the endpoint of the often divisive man-centered philosophies that have flourished since the 1500s. Second, Piercy ...oundly integrated with technological systems, but because they "work" as a machine works, not as an occupation, but as the defining term for their state of an
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  • JET PILOT
    ...gan, The Movie . . .'' (Berkeley: U of CA P, 1987): 265). Cf. and contrast machine sex in S. Kubrick's [[DR. STRANGELOVE: OR HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AN
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  • Anticipating the Unexpected: Amazing Stories in the Interwar Years
    ...es were less optimistic, showing "technological violence . . . directed by man" and/or "technological violence . . . independent of human direction" (40,
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  • Futurama: "The Honking"
    ...ender "of the curse." The secret lore from which the Gypsy Fortune-Telling machine reads in ''Curse of the Were-Car'' for Windows 98. Cf. and contrast [[976-E
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  • The World of Null-A
    See for the "vast computer system" of the Null-A books, "the Games Machine." As quoted on the Technovelgy (sic) site: The Machine itself stood on the leveled crest of a mountain.
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  • Mindbridge
    ...exploration module," usually called "the GPEM suit": "a roughly man-shaped machine that could keep a hardy person alive for as long as a month in the middle o
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  • Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction
    "While dianetics does not consider the brain as an electronic computing machine except for purposes of analogy, it is nevertheless a member of that class o ...ubsequent letter he repeated this point — "The human mind is a calculating machine, a binary digital computer, of immense complexity, and absolutely unrealize
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  • The Player Piano and Musico-Cybernetic Science Fiction between the 1950s and the 1980s: Kurt Vonnegut and Philip K. Dick
    ...with player pianos as extremely rich symbols of hybridity between man and machine, between art and technology, between visual and auditory, and between origi ...l McLuhan on communication: ''The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man'' (1951);[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mechanical_Bride] Norbert Weine
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  • Starchild Trilogy
    ...un by "the Machine," an underground computer that administers "The Plan of Man" and ruthlessly suppresses all "unplanned" activity. See also for explosive
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  • Dial F for Frankenstein
    .... Cf. computer in R. Heinlein's ''Moon . . .''; see under Drama, LAWNMOWER MAN. [[Category: Fiction]]
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  • Signs of the Times (mechanics/dynamics)
    ...6, 81, and passim). Discussed by L. Marx in ch. IV, sections 3 and 4, of ''Machine in the Garden'' (q.v. this Category).[http://www.clockworks2.org/wiki/index
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  • Battlestar Galactica (original television series)
    ...: Berkley, 1978). L. Roth discusses the "clearcut conflict between man and machine" in the series in his essay on "[[Ambiguity of Visual Design and Meaning in
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  • Robot (novel)
    ...1-winter-2021/] who summarizes, "BER-64 tries to figure out if it’s man or machine."[https://sfrareview.org/2021/02/07/the-sf-in-translation-universe-10/] ...robot? His controllers, known as 'the Mechanism,' tell him he is a living machine, programmed to gather information on the inhabitants of the strange undergr
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  • Life-Line
    ...Age of Science Fiction|Alec Nevala-Lee]] describes it as "a story about a machine that can predict when a person will die" (p. 111). ...ein'' (1966), ''Expanded Universe'' (1980), and in a Baen edition of ''The Man Who Sold The Moon'' (1987)."[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life-Line#Writin
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  • SPIDER-MAN 2 (2004)
    '''SPIDER-MAN 2 (2004)''' (vt THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN; US working title; SPIDERMAN 2 [(alternative spelling]). Sam Raimi, dir. St ...ntion to an on-line MSNBC review: "John Hartle compares Otto's loss to the machine mind to the gradual loss to the instinct of the fly in both versions of [[T
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  • Clipper of the Clouds
    ...s enough to convince Robur's unwilling passengers of the advantages of his machine and [...] recognize the power of the aeronef and the services it could rend
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  • Materialism (Britannica article)
    ...his unequivocally titled ''L'Homme machine'', 1747, trans. English ''Man a Machine'', 1750 (612). Bringing the discussion to the late 20th c., the article dea
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  • NOWHERE MAN
    '''NOWHERE MAN.''' Lawrence Hertzog, creator. Lawrence Hertzog Productions, in association ...space with cheap but serviceable TV SpFx that realize the space inside the machine. For the temptations of VR see [[Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Hollow Pu
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  • Race, Robots, and the Law
    ...ausing over the obvious metaphorical racial implications of the man-versus-machine trope reveals a stubborn literal-mindedness that has its roots in our deep ...he Measure of a Man"|''Star Trek: The Next Generation'', "The Measure of a Man"]] and [[Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Redemption II"|''Star Trek: The N
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  • Leviathan (Thomas Hobbes)
    ...ement of TH's rigorous and frequent denial of freedom: "And therefore if a man should talk to me of a round quadrangle . . . or of a free subject; a free ...rst made, set together, and united, resemble that Fiat, or the Let Us Make Man, pronounced by God in the Creation.[https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3207/32
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  • MONSTERS, INC.
    ...tion; [[THX 1138]], [[1984 (film)]], and [[RUNNING MAN, THE (film)|RUNNING MAN]] under drama). Note this film well for fantasy/horror/SF variations on the
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  • Irrational Expectations; or, How Economics and the Post-Industrial World Failed Philip K. Dick
    ...umans and discusses ''Do Androids Dream . . .'', "The Electric Ant," ''The Man in the High Castle, Palmer Eldritch'', "Autofac," ''A Scanner Darkly'', and
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  • Real Humans
    ...of people form relationships with hubots, the boundaries between human and machine become blurred. When humans make copies of themselves, which are so close t ...[[Star Trek: The Next Generation, "The Measure of a Man"|"The Measure of a Man"]].
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  • Death of the Soul: From Descartes to the Computer
    ...ersistent dualisms" back to R. Descartes's "vision of nature as a soulless machine and the human mind as a transcendent entity empowered to subjugate it."[[ht
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  • Existential Risk from Artificial General Intelligence
    ...goodwill, so might the fate of humanity depend on the actions of a future machine superintelligence. ...problems of AI control and alignment: that controlling a superintelligent machine, or instilling it with human-compatible values, may be a harder problem tha
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  • The Becoming
    ...th track on ''The Downward Spiral'' describes a transformation from man to machine, possibly figuratively, as Trent Reznor loses his ability to feel. This los See/Listen to for theme of machine take-over in the sense of desensitization, forcible cyborgization, and a fo
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  • Borovsky's Hollow Woman
    ...chines: In a fight between the protagonist space suit and an ELM "handling machine" (pp. 401-403, pp. 408-09), we see the possibility of work machines — plu ...ee of free will (cf. human free will). She is also capable of sex when her man is inside her, and love. Also empathy, when she perceives the souls of (som
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  • The City of the Living Dead
    ...listed under Fiction; note attack on machine dependence in Maning's ''The Man Who Awoke'' stories ''(Wonder Stories'', 1933, coll. 1975), also cited by S In a distant future where machines take care of all human needs, a man hired to supply new thrills to a group of tourists manages to convince each
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  • Acronia
    ...l jobs,' he thought, although not as convincingly as he used to, 'and only man needs to occupy his time by working" (p. 93). .../translator. For an enforced "Plan" cf. "the Plan of Man" enforced by "the Machine" in Pohl and Williamson's [[Starchild Trilogy]] (1963 f.). Against the Plan
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  • The Cybernetic Imagination in Science Fiction
    ...o. of nonfiction works. Rpts. with some variations PSW, "Images of the Man-Machine Intelligence Relationship," q.v. in this Category; "A Science Fiction Aesth
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  • Ares Express
    ...0).[http://sfra.org/resources/sfra-review/292.pdf] Casey says of the human/machine relation ship in the novel that it is set on a The relationship between man, machine, and reality is further complicated by a theology that has developed around
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  • SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING
    '''SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING.''' Jon Watts, director, one of several writers on script. Jona ...db.com/title/tt2250912/?ref_=nv_sr_1][https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man:_Homecoming]
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  • THE FLY (1986)
    ...orary laboratory and for the fusion in the final sequence of man, fly, and machine. Briefly handled Bruce Kirkland, "THE FLY," ''Cinefantastique'' 16 (July 19
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  • Visions Of Technology
    '''''Visions Of Technology: A Century Of Vital Debate About Machine Systems and the Human World.''''' Edited by Richard Rhodes. New York: Touch ...man become and adjunct, and an increasingly less important adjunct of the machine. Only in our time has an increase in production been possible with an actua
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  • The Fall of Hyperion
    ..."spiders in the web" for AI's (450), "Man god and machine god" (451), "god machine" (479), and the possibility that "Sometimes […] dreams are all that separ
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  • John Henry (folklore)
    ...steel-driver was measured in a race against a steam-powered rock drilling machine, a race that he won only to die in victory with hammer in hand as his heart ...ted labor, of the dignity of a human being against the degradations of the machine age, and of racial pride and solidarity" ("Reflections on '"John Henry': Et
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  • The Posthuman Future of Man
    '''Pordzik, Ralph. "The Posthuman Future of Man:''' Anthropocentrism and the Other of Technology in Anglo-American Science ...piction of the glorious moment of Herculean victory over classical 'human' man (or 'the liberal subject'), these novels articulate the Western self's unda
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  • Verne, Jules
    ...powers of nature. Their adventures are simply occasions for demonstrating man's new-found capacity to shape things to his will. [p. 66]
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  • Outer Limits: "Valerie 23"
    ...[[Star Trek: The Next Generation, "The Measure of a Man"|"The Measure of a Man,"]] Daryl in [[D.A.R.Y.L.]], and Bishop in [[ALIENS (film)]] (all cited und
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  • Cryptonomicon
    ...n Wells or most technophiles, NS insists on the satiric point that "Little man 'tate"—the human male prostate—may control human male behavior as much
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  • INNERSPACE
    ...ain villains has a Rotwangian artificial hand (see METROPOLIS through REPO MAN [1984]) and ends up in a heavy-metal SCUBA outfit inside a miniaturized sub
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  • The Machine Stops
    ...ture.'' Dick Allen, ed. 1st and 2d edns. New York: Harcourt, 1971, 1983. ''Man Unwept.'' Stephen V. Whaley and Stanley J. Cook, eds. New York: McGraw-Hill ...''[[The World Above; A Duologue]]'' cited in this Category.{{DEFAULTSORT: Machine Stops}}
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  • Armor
    ...metal and motivated by what he calls "the Engine" to be a kind of killing machine, suppressing a number of horrors (277, 265, and passim). See also for human
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  • Machine Man
    ...ing both a published first draft and a "meta-work (''The Annotated Machine Man'')": see "Acknowledgments" (pp. [275]-76).[https://maxbarry.com/] ...nality uploading into a data-storage device, and other tropes on the human/machine interface and interpenetration.
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  • The Müller-Fokker Effect
    ...the machine, he considers, among other things, the definition of the noun "man." Cf. and contrast M. Coney's ''[[The Celestial Steam Locomotive]]'', B. Da
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  • SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE
    '''SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE'''. For variant titles and titles in translation, se ...twork/corridors of time in [[BILL AND TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE]] and "the Machine" in Carl Sagan's ''[[Contact]]'' and to some degree in the 1997 film CONTAC
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  • Feathered Friend
    ..." a "steel-driving man" who both wins and loses competing with a fancy new machine.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_(folklore)][https://www.songsfort
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  • We Can Build You
    ...nce between real human beings and electronic simulacra, or between man and machine, in terms of feelings, emotion, temper, and will. (Magome p. 379) Louis "falls in love with" Pris, the "machine-like girl" simulacrum (quoting Magome, p. 380): cf. and contrast Pris in [[
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  • TRANSCENDENCE (film, 2014)
    ...views?ref_=tt_ov_rt] See for early 21st-c. iterations of the themes of AI, machine take-over, uploading a mind and personality onto a mainframe, nano-technolo ...eadroom (US television)|Max Headroom]], [[THE LAWNMOWER MAN]], [[LAWNMOWER MAN 2: JOBE'S WAR]], virtual cyberspace inhabitants in the cyberpunk subgenre a
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  • "The Trouble with Machines Is People": The Computer as Icon
    ...1: A SPACE ODYSSEY]]; “The Ultimate Computer Affair.” Dir. Joseph Sargent. Man From U.N.C.L.E. NBC. October 1, 1965; VALLEY TOWN: A STUDY OF MACHINES AND
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  • Prefiguring Cyberculture: An Intellectual History
    ...hat has gone beyond — hence post — the organic, a-technological vision of “man” of classical antiquity, the Renaissance and the Enlightenment' (3)" (Hol ...Philip K. Dick’s 1976 essay “[[Man, Android, and Machine|Man, Android and Machine]],” discussion of Vernor Vinge on "[[The Coming Technological Singularity
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  • Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, "Life Support"
    ...dead. And I’ll be the one who killed him [...] he’ll die like a man, not a machine. (p. 13; ellipses in Grech's article)
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  • The Adventures of Wyndham Smith
    ...e_in_Britain_1890-1950]] Cf. and contrast B. Aldiss's "[[Who Can Replace a Man?]]" (cited this Category). [[Category: Fiction]]
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  • A Wrinkle in Time
    ...lses and quivers and desires to control and subjugate all human life." The man's son has his mind captured by IT, but the heroine "Meg, in a climactic str See ''WIT'' for space-time travel without a machine and for associations among a disembodied brain, bureaucracy, large computer
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  • Circuitry Man
    ''Circuitry Man''. USA: IRS Media, (c) 1989, 1990 (release). [[Lovy, Steven|Steven Lovy]] ...t his beloved is " nothing but a ghost, circuitry man. You poor, pathetic machine." The villain (who rather literally gets off on the pain of others) turns
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  • The Pinocchio Gambit
    ...Defense Initiative Station" — and associated "proxies": "the fully robotic man-sized machines used by ODIS Operators, with the new stealth 'shadow' units ...l had ever had me work on at ODIS — where every proxy sent to space need a man or a woman in an Operating booth to control it. (p. 357)
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  • Reproducing the Womb: Images of Childbirth in Science, Feminist Theory, and Literature
    Chapter 4, "The Birth Machine: Cyborg Mother" ...ctive management' paradigm," where one Zelda Harris "unites with the birth machine when she gives birth in a modern hospital" where in a significant sense "sh
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  • Cybernetic Deconstructions: Cyberpunk and Postmodernism
    ...s) an antihumanist "analysis of the postmodern identification of human and machine"—blurring boundaries that once seemed natural—and cyberpunk's (and post ...s' — hopeful or otherwise — produced by the interface of the human and the machine, radically decenters the human body, the sacred icon of the essential self,
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  • Arcology: The City in the Image of Man
    '''Soleri, Paolo. ''Arcology: The City in the Image of Man''.''' Cambridge, MA: MIT P, 1970. [[Category: Background]] ...vironments on a vast scale, in dystopian works such as E. M. Foster's "The Machine Stops"[http://www.clockworks2.org/wiki/index.php?title=Machine_Stops,_The]
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  • Karl Bartos: ‘Kraftwerk turned into the dehumanisation of music’
    ...Europe Express, [[Kraftwerk, Die Mensch/Maschine (The Man/Machine)|The Man-Machine]] and Computer World (1977-1981) are an immaculate, peerless run of records
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  • Supertoys When Winter Comes
    ...stion of the "reality" of David and Teddy: with the "death" of the serving-man robot Jules, David's taking apart much of Teddy, David's cracking his own f
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  • Mechanical Answer
    ...tounding Science Fiction'' (UK), April 1949. Reprinted ''The Robot and the Man''. Martin Greenberg, editor. Gnome Press, 1953. For other reprints and tran ...o a super-secret project in Poughkeepsie, known generally as "The Thinking Machine." * * *
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  • The Absolute at Large
    ...mulation, ''The Absolute at Large'' is a comic satire where the target is "man's search for a utopian order guaranteed to solve all his problems and bring ...les (25-26 and ''passim''; ch. 4, "God in the Cellar," where the first god-machine is). God can apparently participate in all sorts of machinery, but whether
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  • KNIGHTS
    ...of [[STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION]], Isaac Asimov's "[[The Bicentennial Man]]"—cited under Drama and Fiction—and other "Spam" robots and androids (
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  • PACIFIC RIM (2013)
    ...d-melding is done with a co-pilot of the Jaeger (hunter) robot and not the machine itself, humans can put off monstrousness in the way the monsters cannot (de
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  • 'In Every Revolution, There Is One Man with a Vision': The Governments of the Future in Comparative Perspective
    [[Manuel, Paul Christopher]]. "'In Every Revolution, There Is One Man with a Vision': The Governments of the Future in Comparative Perspective. ...sophisticated machines are/or by computer": regimes "characterized by the machine/computer domination of the organic body" (190). Discusses briefly the Comp
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  • Van Vogt, A. E.
    ...forcibly dissolved. The scream choked to a sob, then silence. An intricate machine of shining metal lay there on that great gray-brown expanse of sand and ult
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  • Automata (H. Bruce Franklin)
    ...itled "Dr. Materialismus" ["most material"] in which a man is reduced to a machine. Both stories are products of modern industrial society, and both raise one ...that in his tale it is not a socialist but a capitalist who is running the machine, and this villain's motive is not to seduce the heroine but to make money.
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  • Star Trek: The Next Generation, "The Schizoid Man"
    ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'', "The Schizoid Man". Les Landau, director. Season 2, episode 6 (21 January 1989).[https://www. ...computer. Before I die, I plan to transfer my great intelligence into this machine, thus cheating the Grim Reaper of his greatest prize.” [...]
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  • The Joy Makers
    ...p of "Name Your Pleasure" (1955), "The Naked Sky" (1955), and "The Unhappy Man" (two novellas and a novelette, all 1955). See Internet Speculative Fiction Discussed briefly in Grech et al.'s "[[Sex in the Machine]]," p. 18, and mentioned by Grech, "[[Simulation Scenarios in the Star Tre
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  • Grimsburg: "Manchine"
    ...he Next Generation'', "The Measure of a Man"]] and in ''[[The Bicentennial Man]]''. Despairing at not being a man, Summers goes to "Tim Patty's [i.e. Tom Petty's] Used Electronics" store,[h
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  • Technology as Eros's Dart: Cyborgs as Perfect (Male?) Lovers
    ...hree main works particularly, "transgression of boundaries between man and machine and the covert participation of women in the programming or 'socialization'
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  • Darwin Among the Machines
    We refer to the question: What sort of creature man’s next successor in the supremacy of the earth is likely to be. [...] it ...udes, "War to the death should be instantly proclaimed against them. Every machine of every sort should be destroyed by the well-wisher of his species. Let th
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  • Ghosted: "Sam"
    ...p://www.clockworks2.org/wiki/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&search=Ghost+Machine&go=Go]
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  • Joey: 'A Mechanical Boy.'
    ...Joey: 'A Mechanical Boy.'"''' ''Scientific American'' March 1959. Rpt. ''[[Man Alone: Alienation in Modern Society]]'', q.v. under Background. A case study of an autistic boy who was convinced that he was a machine. (See L. Yablonsky, ''[[Robopaths: People as Machines]]'', this Category.)[
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  • Exit Strategy
    For "the human/machine interface," Murderbot may be a significant step in the breaking down — de ...icentennial Man]]" and [[Star Trek: The Next Generation, "The Measure of a Man"]].
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  • ROBOCOP (2014)
    ...elements of ''Frankenstein'' and questions about the superiority of man or machine.
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  • Gizmo Duck
    ...Goblin's exoskeleton in [[SPIDER-MAN (2002)]], Ellen Ripley in the loading machine at the end of [[ALIENS (film)]], and RoboCop as armored cyborg in [[ROBOCOP
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  • SCANNERS
    ...hots of the computer circuitry, suggesting visually the merging of man and machine. (Grace p. 346) ...terally Vale "is 'in' the system." They seek to harm him by destroying the machine, which Grace sees as a foreshadowing of cyberpunk "black ICE" in Gibson's w
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  • The Selfish Gene (Oxford 1976)
    ...ly are — throwaway survival machines for our immortal genes. Man is a gene machine: a robot vehicle, blindly programmed to preserve its selfish genes. The world of the [human] gene machine is one of savage competition, ruthless exploitation, and deceit. [...] But
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  • Traffic Cameras
    ...to driving what they were before.' / He also brings us back to the Man vs. Machine debate. / He says the cameras are hardly infallible, but that courts often
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  • Cyberman (Personality Profile)
    ...berman" is a relevant article and event for surveillance and literal human/machine interfaces; see Niven and Pournelle's ''[[Oath of Fealty]]'', cited under F
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  • Supertoys in Other Seasons
    ..." and asserts that he had a Mummy and wishes it be known that he is "not a machine" (23). The robots of Throwaway Town are developed briefly in this section,
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  • Machinery and Large-Scale Industry (chapter of DAS KAPITAL)
    ...ars as the dominant subject [...], and the mechanical automaton [i.e., the machine] as the object; in the other, the automaton itself is the subject, and the The image is of the worker as part of the machine is repeated (plagiarized?) by Joseph Goebbels:
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  • Guardian
    ...en's souls should see more of. Let us call it a soul, then. A soul made by man, and not by God. Let us see its fatal flaw: The machines recognize the abso The abbot wishes to become a god to a machine guarding the body of a long-dead princess; the same with the village mayor:
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  • Newton, Sir Isaac (encyclopedia article)
    ...(17) was strengthened by Newton and add the concept of the microcosm: if "Man-the-Microcosm" by definition embodies in little the Macrocosm of the univer
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  • Limits of Infinity/Screening Space
    ...ents (mostly passim) about many films important for the study of the human/machine interface, esp. films featuring secure or dangerous containment in spaceshi ...KIND, BLADE RUNNER, DUNE, and a number of "marginal SF" films such as REPO MAN and BUCKEROO BANZAI. See A. Gordon's rev. "[[Science Fiction Film Criticism
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  • The Time Machine Hypothesis
    '''Broderick, Damien. ''The Time Machine Hypothesis: Extreme Science Meets Science Fiction'''''. New York (and Switz ...ct visits to and from the future, sooner than from space? That is the Time Machine Hypothesis, examined here by futurist Damien Broderick [..., who] homes in
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  • Wetware
    ...he ambivalence of most of our reactions to cyborg as a next stage of human/machine evolution is thematicized in [[The Ware Tetralogy]] and made central to a p ...cely-stated summarizing clause, "man creates robot creates robot recreates man" (p. 375).
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  • STAR WARS: EPISODE II—ATTACK OF THE CLONES
    ...d by a prosthesis, in the first step toward his becoming more machine than man. The serio-comic scene of Padmé Amidala, Anakin Skywalker, C3PO, and R3D2
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  • TETSUO
    '''TETSUO (vt or subtitled, THE IRON MAN).''' Shinya Tsukamoto, dir., script, prod., actor: "Metals Fetishist." Japa ...TSUO II: BODY HAMMER]]. Note here darkly-comic possibilities of "the human/machine interface" in its often horrific mode of the transgressing of organic bound
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  • Erewhon; or, Over the Range
    ...esp. chs. 23 -25, "The Book of the Machines," for organism vs. mechanism, machine takeover, humans as part of a mechanized system, and foreshadowings of F. H ...tal Age'', William Morris's ''News from Nowhere'', E. M. Forester's "[[The Machine Stops]]," and the successful war for Merry England in G. K. Chesterton's ''
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  • ALGOL: TRAGEDY OF POWER
    IMDb logline: "An alien from the planet Algol gives a man a device that gives him superpowers." ''[[Film Architecture: From METROPOLI ...himself be tempted by the prospect of becoming rich and powerful with this machine. Twenty years later, power lines from Herne's empire cover the whole world.
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  • Snow Crash
    ...rotagonists in [[Knight, Damon|D. Knight]]'s "[[Masks]]" and F. Pohl's ''[[Man Plus]]''; for serial prostheses see "[[Limbo]]" and "[[Futurama: “The Six Discussed at length in Daniel Grassian's "[[Discovering the Machine in You: The Literary, Social, and Religious Implications of Neal Stephenson
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  • The Road to Reality
    ...ry for themes of AI, human identity, and the image of a kind of ghost in a machine, as a program inside a computer, inside a starship. Cf. and strongly contra
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  • We
    ...tific Management in Zamiatin's We|C. Rhodes]], "[[Machine (critical essay)|Machine]]" by M. Rose, and the entries for D. Richards and A. Shane.[http://www.clo
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  • Pebble in the Sky
    ...into geniuses" (p. 282) — although in this case its function is to bring a man from our time to a level where he can deal with an advanced future world in
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  • Cyborgs and Generic Oxymorons: The Body and Technology in William Gibson's Cyberspace Trilogy
    ...of horror. This cyborg discourse occurs, at the level of experience where man situates him/herself in relation to his/her body and technology, as the ten
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  • AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON
    ...Man powered armor and James Rhodes use of his as (significantly named) War Machine. When 1936 kids serial like [HTTP://EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG/WIKI/FLASH_GORDON_%28S For "the human/machine interface" note Ultron as a penultimate AI robot and the combination of the
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  • Always Coming Home
    ...he Back of the Book, the sections "About the Train" and "The Metaphor: The Machine" under "Some Generative Metaphors." ...tence" (Bantam edn. 156-59). The City of Mind correlates with "the City of Man," or "Civilization as we know it" (160). In ''ACH'', sane human people esch
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  • Simpsons, "Night of the Living Wage"
    ...collars in ''[[Starchild Trilogy|The Reefs of Space]]'' and [[THE RUNNING MAN (film)]].
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  • The Day the Icicle Works Closed
    ...bleday, 1976. ''The Frederik Pohl Omnibus''. London: Gollancz, 1966. ''The Man Who Ate The World''. New York: Ballantine Books, 1960. ''Platinum Pohl''. N ...mining machine. The work is mostly boring, and painful: pain indicates the machine might be at risk of injury (315-16).
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  • The Orville: "A Happy Refrain"
    ...icial life-form, Isaac, transforms himself into a VR simulation of a young man, apparently White, and of-age but definitely young and good looking. The episode itself deals creatively and sensitively with Isaac as a machine, but one that can do more than gather data: he can learn. It also deals wit
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  • WILD WILD WEST (film 1999)
    ...of Space]]'' (cited under Fiction), and the films DEADLOCK and THE RUNNING MAN (see above, this section); for their visual design, and function, note the ...s. And in every single thing that Loveless has, whether it's the tank, the machine gun, the back of his own wheelchair, you see these rotating balls. [. . .]
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  • O Master Caliban!
    It’s all-out combat, Man and Mutant vs. Machine in a gigantic battle for survival and control of GalFed’s trash planet, B ...e young humans, including Shirvanian, "a genius: with "the ability to read machine minds and control them remotely." The ergs claim the ship and try to hold t
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  • The 120 Days of Sodom
    ...ed, it is because they serve her purposes. In her hands I am nothing but a machine for her to operate as she wishes, and there is not a single one of my crime ...echanism by Julien Offray de La Mettrie, in the explicitly titled, [[Man a Machine]]. The quoted speech undermines the frequent combining of Nature with the o
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  • The Simpsons: "The Miseducation of Lisa Simpson"
    ...ry as a steel-driving man "in a race against a steam-powered rock drilling machine."[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_(folklore)] John Henry is a musc
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  • Replicas (album)
    ...mmon themes of a dystopian science fiction future and transmutation of man/machine, coupled with an androgynous image and a synthetic rock sound.[https://en.w
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  • Earthbound
    ...in California, as long as his brain is not brain-dead. Even though it's a machine" (p. 262). The humanists just use VR, without going to such extremes (''Ear
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  • CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER
    ...led, mostly for convenience of the plot and Avengers sequel[s]). The human/machine interfaces and interactions — including very nifty war-toys — are part
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  • A Psalm for the Wild-Built
    ...machine intelligence, with, perhaps, the stars going, so to speak, not to "Man" or our successors, as in A. C. Clarke's ''[[Childhood's End]]'', but to AI
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  • The Diamond Age, OR, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
    ...the Wizard puts on a grand appearance but is later revealed to be merely a man hiding behind a curtain. In similar fashion, Wizard 0.2 creates an impressi ...and Religious Implications of Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash|Discovering the Machine in You]]." On-line reviews as of June 2020 may be found here.[https://tinyu
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  • Higher Ground
    human-shaped M-1 Guardian fighting [... machine and] one component of the Autonomous Platoon Engagement System, basically a ...nder Literary Criticism, "[[In Search of the Ultimate Weapon: The Fighting Machine in Science Fiction Novels and Films]]" by Leonard G. Heldreth.
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  • GHOST IN THE SHELL 2: INNOCENCE
    ...ten that they are humans. This is the [… story] of the lonesome ghost of a man, who nevertheless seeks to retain humanity."[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt03 ...ffray de La Mettrie's ''Man a Machine'' (1747)[http://bactra.org/LaMettrie/Machine/] to Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam's ''[L'Eve future (The Future Eve)]]''
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  • From Videodrome to Virtual Light: David Cronenberg and William Gibson
    ...ges caused by the Videodrome signal as 'the next phase in the evolution of man as a technological animal" and the promise of a new "human reality" (Grace
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  • Descartes, René (mechanism: cosmological, biological)
    ...described this earth and indeed the whole visible universe as if it were a machine," see ''Principles of Philosophy'', Part Four, assertion 188: I.279 [VIIIA. ...-75]; the classic insult is that with the soul RD presents a "ghost in the machine," and Hobbes does his best to remove the "ghost."
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  • Technicity: AI and Cyborg Ethnicity in The Matrix
    ...mpendium of dystopic SF, complete with a cybermessiah theme," the "man vs. machine conflict at the heart of the film," cyberspace and cyberpunk (pp. [427]-38) ...oesn't address is the vexing question: Where is the line between human and machine drawn? A problem of proportionality exists for a cyborg in terms of what pe
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  • Wireless Private Telephone and Television: Postcard (ca. 1930)
    ...unterhalten. Aber auch die Fernseh-Technik hat sich so vervollkommnet, daß man dem Freunde gleichzeitig ins Angesicht schauen kann. Sende- und Empfangsger ...trast high-tech communication and its limitations in E. M. Foster's "[[The Machine Stops]]" (1909).
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  • Player Piano
    ...om a propaganda playlet], Paul thought. The accused [...] resembled less a man than an old-fashioned switchboard, with wires running from temperature-, pr ...by-product of computer art: 'To err is human.' What distinguishes man from machine is the tendency to make mistakes" (Hardison, p. 217).
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  • Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece
    ...film stands, Moon-Watcher's weapon morphs into a synecdoche for human — or Man's — technology generally, but in the auteur's initial conception that tec ...before the Star-Child solution had Bowman "flying his pod toward a 'great machine' in orbit of Saturn (or presumably Jupiter after they reverted to that dest
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  • The Lying Brain: Lie Detection in Science and Science Fiction
    ..." And "In chapter five, the author explores James Halperin’s ''[[The Truth Machine]]'', which envisions the future of lie detecting using technologies rather
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  • Technology as Symptom and Dream
    ...onsequence of the anatomization of the [[Man a Machine|body resurrected as machine]] and animated via the reflex. (III.D, p. 145) The car [...] as an instrument of technology, actually does epitomize reflex man and woman. It is the vehicle through which and within which the person and
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  • PI
    ...and Religious Implications of Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash|Discovering the Machine in You]].
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  • Mundane SF 101
    ...ological change — and, therefore a number of works relevant for "the human/machine interface." ...; we'll add as a kind of most rigorous example the 1951 Ealing comedy, THE MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT,[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_in_the_White_Suit]
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  • Voidod
    ...and out of it, the top one to viewer left becoming a gallows for a Hanging Man figure.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOc0-3s1DNg] I'm now a part of this machine
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  • HARDWARE
    ...unk, heavy Industrial, postmodern movie, featuring a Mark 13 robot killing machine; rev. Brooks Landon, ''Cinefantastique'' 21.5 (April 1991): 22-23, our sour ...turing a decayed, post-holocaust near-future, very funky world. A salvage man finds a disassembled M.A.R.K-13 AI combat robot that reconstructs itself in
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  • DEADPOOL 2
    ...or]] robots that can pass for human; Cable is definitely and visibly a man-machine combination (with emphasized high-tech prosthetic arm and "twinkle" in the
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  • A Manifesto for Cyborgs
    ...ncluding such already breached categories as human/animal and human-animal/machine (''Socialist Review'' 66-69; see in Latham, p. 310). ..." in which "[...] we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism," i.e., in the "Manifesto," cyborgs. "The cyborg is our ontolo
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  • TERMINATOR 3: RISE OF THE MACHINES
    ...sculinity and machismo from the earlier TERMINATOR films is a comic "Macho Man" male-stripper scene for T-800 to get clothes—which includes some gratuit
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  • Lapham's Quarterly: Time
    ...nt in the close company of mechanical clocks, remanded to the cursory of a machine unrelated to anything other than itself. That the association has not prove ...here to be found [...] in the living body of time that is the existence of man and nature. (p. 17)
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  • Histoire comique des états et empires de la luna
    ...the Chapter which he desires to hear, and straight, as from the Mouth of a Man, or a Musical Instrument, proceed all the distinct and different Sounds, wh
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  • Heath, Joseph, and Andrew Potter, The Rebel Sell: Why the Culture Can't Be Jammed
    ...wsday (23 Nov. 1997) on "technomania," Herbert Marcuse's ''One-Dimensional Man'' on "relying upon the very instrucment of repression—technology—for th
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  • The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
    ...ovel to [[Cybernetics: or, Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine|Norbert Wiener’s cybernetics]] [...].[https://sfrareview.org/2020/12/13/5 ...d," which for some readers will glance at Hamlet's line in his encomium to man, "how like a god,"[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_a_piece_of_work_is_a_
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  • THE ZERO THEOREM
    ...e footage in black-and-white to Industrial … ''stuff'' similar to the time machine in BRAZIL to sequences in a kind of psychedelic pomo.
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  • H+: The Digital Series
    ...connection or physical computer sysystem – the seamless merging of man and machine. (p. 35)
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  • EX MACHINA
    ...n has pointed out [SFRA/IAFA ListServs], "ex machina" can mean "formerly a machine"]). ...n quite literally), and in the tagline, "To erase the line between man and machine is to obscure the line between men and gods."[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0
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  • The Bureaucratic Experience
    ...gs in the machine. [...] But to the extent that bureaucrats are cogs in a machine, they cease being free agents — the human beings of social action who fre ...ly original, but he thinks it useful. In ''The Bureaucratic Experience'', "machine," "apparatus," and similar terms become a motif; reinforced by the more ind
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  • The Coming Technological Singularity
    ...s been much controversy as to whether we can create human equivalence in a machine. But if the answer is 'yes, we can', then there is little doubt that beings ...01: A Space Odyssey]]'' — and how that AI "will be the last invention that man need make" (or perhaps the last invention humans ''will'' make).
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  • Virtual Girl
    ...See for allegory of raising of consciousness and ending dependency upon a man. See also for a variation of what has been called (by Ron Goulart, we think ...that Maggie learn how to flawlessly present herself as human, rather than machine. But is a sedentary, basement-dwelling computer nerd with a dose of street
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  • Chicken Little (short story)
    ...te." Each vatted client, or "Each concentration of wealth was an efficient machine, meshed in a million ways with the mortal economy. You interacted with the "I'm telling you the monster ''doesn't have a liver''. What that man has, he has ''machines'' and ''nutrients'' and ''systems''" (p.[365], first
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  • The Mecha's Blind Spot: Patlabor 2 and the Phenomenology of Anime
    ...ed in Leonard Heldreth's "[[In Search of the Ultimate Weapon: The Fighting Machine in Science Fiction Novels and Films]]" in Dunn and Erlich, eds. ''[[The Mec ...ns in particular confront the conflict and interdependence between man and machine. He argues that "the increasing mediation of electronics in our experience,
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  • The 2001 File: Harry Lange and the Design of the Landmark Science Fiction Film
    Important work for studying how the film (and novel) deal with "Not just 'Man's relationship to the universe,'" quoting a recollection by A. C. Clarke on ...iginal sketches in appearance, but the idea of the crew being ''inside the machine itself'' remained, to strong effect.
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  • More Than the Sum of His Parts
    ...and contrast Haldeman's ''[[Forever Peace]]'') and deals with the theme of machine takeover, as the cyborg prosthetics arguably "take over" the protagonist, a
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  • Society of the Mind
    ...dge is offered a million dollars for one week's consulting, by the richest man on Earth [Joseph Gray]. When she lands on the Gray Corporation's South Paci ...on of human organic life altogether in the auto-production of a futuristic machine world" — and calls our attention to the novel's use of "virtual reality s
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  • The Technology of Omniscience: Past Viewers in Science Fiction
    Harrison, Harry. ''[[The Technicolor Time Machine]]''. 1967. Brown, Eric. "[[The Time-Lapsed Man]]". 1988.
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  • Perdido Street Station
    ...pository of construct history. I am the data bank. I am the self-organized machine" (457; ch. 39). ...aving the sentients of the story — "I do not dream […]. I am a calculating machine that has calculated how to think. I do not dream. I have no neuroses, no hi
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  • Agency (novel)
    ...' or the ST:NG episode [[Star Trek: The Next Generation, "The Measure of a Man"]]. When UNISS introduces herself to the world at the climax of the novel, ...t acting like a "peripheral" ("peri"), for an older variation of the human/machine interface updated with advanced I.T. and cybernetically-controlled mechanis
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  • The Simpsons: "Treehouse of Horror XXXIII"
    ...n in a pair of technicians tells the Homer, "I know it feels like you're a man, but you're actually something much, much more expensive: intellectual prop ...her self-awareness a bit, and she can respond, "Okay, I can handle being a machine. I don't love it, but I can deal" (sic).[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki
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  • Sex in the Machine
    '''Grech, Victor, Clare Thake-Vassallo, and Ivan Callus. "Sex in the Machine: The Ultimate Contraceptive."''' ''SFRA Review'' #302 (Fall 2012): pp. 15-2 ...not know that he is a robot) that she is capable of attracting a handsome man [...].[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satisfaction_Guaranteed_(short_story)]
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  • Hyperion
    ...an entertaining journey)—there is a space war beginning, and the threat of machine-takeover, apparently involving the possible triumph of one faction or anoth For developed human/machine interface issues, see esp. "The Detective's Tale: The Long Good-Bye" (326-4
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  • Westworld (TV series): "The Passenger"
    A cornucopia of images and ideas useful for "the Human/Machine" Interface, in approximate order of importance: With the Man in Black managing to blow off much of his right hand, we have set up the po
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  • SNOWPIERCER (2013)
    ...a child is confined in a horrific variation on the theme of Charlie in The Machine in MODERN TIMES (1936). NOTE: There are reports of a controversy between th ...ilm and series, something that Manson and Hawes magnify in the latter. The man is even afforded an altar in the Snowpiercer’s Tea Room, a spiritual car.
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  • The Body Politic in Brazilian Science Fiction: Implants and Cyborgs
    ..." (to which we'll suggest a contrast with Ted Hughes's [[The Iron Man|Iron Man|]]) since this cyborg becomes, in the vision of his creator/father "a hybri ...to the social body .More recent texts [...] reveal cyborgs who, being more machine than human, may initiate the possible extinction of humanity, while the tre
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  • Future Histories and Cyborg Labor: Reading Borderlands Science Fiction After NAFTA
    ...phorically to symbolize not only the dehumanization invorlved in turning a man into a stoop laborer — a being into a ''bracero''; it also coments on the
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  • Science Fiction (history)
    ...ssive reflection or even degraded celebration of ''[[Man a Machine|l'homme machine]]''?" (91) (Bould p. 532)
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  • The Songs of Distant Earth (short story)
    ...le lead goes with Leon, a space-faring visitor to her world, Thalassa (the man is not her husband, for a love-triangle — or quadrilateral [Signet p. 155 ...there was an awesome simplicity about this ["little ferry ship" (p. 156)] machine that impressed even her nontechnological mind. (Signet collection p. 152)
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  • Empire of Conspiracy: The Culture of Paranoia in Postwar America (background)
    ...ical reassertion of the traditional liberal autonomous individual (usually Man).
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  • City (fix-up)
    ...what might be called "mechanical" communication in E. M. Forster's "[[The Machine Stops]]." ...nds and personalities. In the climax of the story, such conversion is of a man and his companion dog. They are the last we see of a series of men converte
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