This innovative and wide-ranging volume is the first systematic exploration of the multifaceted relationship between human bodies and machines in classical antiquity. It examines the conception of the body and bodily processes in mechanical terms in...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 28-Sep-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Liverpool University Press, ISBN-13: 9781836245223)
A collection of papers that introduces the notion of the technosoma (techno body) into discussions on the representations of the body in classical antiquity....Lasīt vairāk
This innovative and wide-ranging volume is the first systematic exploration of the multifaceted relationship between human bodies and machines in classical antiquity. It examines the conception of the body and bodily processes in mechanical terms in...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 03-Nov-2023, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Liverpool University Press, ISBN-13: 9781802078602)
A collection of papers that introduces the notion of the technosoma (techno body) into discussions on the representations of the body in classical antiquity. By applying the category of the technosoma to the natural body, this vol...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 27-Jul-2023, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781316514665)
Explores the ways in which the human body and the world of machines and technological artefacts intersected in the ancient world. Traces the origins of the body-machine interface from Homers automata down to the figural assimilation between body pa...Lasīt vairāk
Fourteen papers explore the relationship between knowledge and the body through a series of historical and archaeological case studies. More specifically, it considers the concept of embodied knowledge by exploring some of the apparent diverse and ye...Lasīt vairāk
