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Patricia S. Warrick «The Cybernetic Imagination in Science Fiction»

The Cybernetic Imagination in Science Fiction

Язык издания: английский

Cambridge (MA): MIT Press, 1980 г.

Тираж: не указан

ISBN: 0-262-23100-X

Тип обложки: твёрдая + суперобложка

Формат: другой

Страниц: 302

Содержание:

  1. Patricia S. Warrick. The Cybernetic Imagination in Science Fiction (монография)

    1. Acknowledgments, c. xi-xi
    2. Introduction, c. xiii-xvii
    3. 1. The Cybernetic Imagination
      1. Science Fiction as a Form of the Literary Imagination, c. 1-8
      2. Information Theory and Computer Technology, c. 8-16
      3. Social and Philosophical Implication of Cybernetics, c. 16-24
    4. 2. Germinal Literary Images and Early Technologies
      1. The Myths, c. 25-29
      2. Early Automata, c. 29-35
      3. Frankenstein and His Nineteenth-Century Followers, c. 35-43
      4. Twentieth-Century Antecedents, c. 43-52
    5. 3. Science Fiction Images of Computers and Robots
      1. Isaac Asimov Develops the Genre, c. 53-74
      2. The Role of Consciousness, c. 74-79
    6. 4. An Aesthetic and an Approach
      1. An Aesthetic of Complementary Perception, c. 80-88
      2. The Problem: Too Much Material, c. 88-92
      3. A Systems Approach Using Isolated, Closed, and Open Systems, c. 92-99
      4. Advantages of the Systems Approach, c. 99-101
    7. 5. The Isolated-System Model
      1. [Вступление к главе], с. 102-105
      2. Creation as an Ongoing Process, c. 105-113
      3. The Robot as Metaphor, c. 113-118
      4. Machine Intelligence as a Tool, c. 118-127
      5. Conclusion, c. 127-129
    8. 6. The Closed-System Model
      1. Dystopian Literature, c. 130-134
      2. An Automated Society, c. 134-139
      3. Who Controls a Totalitarian Worlds?, c. 139-145
      4. The Choice: A Natural or an Artificial Worlds?, c. 145-150
      5. Vision of the End, с. 150-153
      6. Conclusion, c. 153-160
    9. 7. The Open-System Model
      1. The Speculative Transforming Imagination, c. 161-166
      2. A Complementary Mode, c. 166-172
      3. Genetic Information Codes, c. 173-174
      4. The Computer and the Community, c. 175-176
      5. Man-Machine Symbiosis, c. 176-188
      6. Transformation and Reversals, c. 188-191
      7. Stanislaw Lem’s Robot Fables and Ironic Tales, c. 191-198
      8. Conclusion, c. 198-202
    10. 8. Into the Electronic Future
      1. The Transformation of Man and Machine, c. 203-206
      2. Philip K. Dick’s Robots, c. 206-230
    11. Conclusion: Some Critical Questions and Speculations, c. 231-237
    12. Notes, c. 238-248
    13. Nonfiction Bibliography, c. 249-258
    14. Fiction Bibliography, c. 259-269
    15. Index, c. 271-282
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