Vital Machine and Technology as Organic Life
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* Book: The vital machine : a study of technology and organic life. By David Channel. Oxford University Press, 1991
URL = https://archive.org/details/vitalmachinestud0000chan
Contents
1. Introduction: The Mechanical and the Organic --
2. The Mechanical World View: The Clockwork Universe --
3. Mechanical Organisms: From Automats to Clockwork Humans --
4. The Organic World View: From Magic to Vitalism --
5. Organic Machines: Technology as Plant --
6. The Emergence of the Bionic World View --
7. The Vital Machine --
8. Conclusion: Ethics in the Age of the Vital Machine