Post-Human Mimesis and the Debunked Machine: Reading Environmental Appropriation in Poe's "Maelzel's Chess-Player" and "The Man That Was Used Up"

Berkley, James

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“…134 The work of the author is exposed as assembled, blocks in a chain, so to speak: 'in an important sense, the authoritative technological objects in ['The Man That Was Used Up'] have themselves been built up through processes of imitation'. 135 soul of every kind of imitation, even of imitation which is envious and calculating, even of imitation of an enemy'. 148 Or as Poe asserts, 'The people will imitate the nobles'.…”

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Few persons can be made to believe that it is not quite an easy thing to invent a method of secret writing which shall baffle investigation. Yet it may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve. 2It boils down to cryptography. 3 Everything went virtual in 2020, which may or may not have created the perfect storm for the apparent eruption of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) in the mainstream press. Of course, NFTs had been around for several years before this but, in March 2021, seemingly all of a sudden and everywhere at once, they were occupying almost the entire news cycle. Everything was NFTs, which is not bad for something that is nothing. The application of NFTs has continued with considerable momentum in recent months, with NFTs entering high-profile art markets in sales at the top auction houses, including: Christie's, 4 who sold Beeple, the first NFT based on an art work; 5 Sotheby's; 6 and Phillips. 7 But NFTs are now well beyond the elite world of contemporary art and moving into the mainstream consumer environments of fashion, 8 film, 9 music, 10 food, 11 publishing, 12 and even architecture. 13 I too am so under their spell,

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“The Infurnal Thing”: Autonomy and Ability in Narratives of Disabling, Self-acting, and Weaponized Prostheses

Sweet

2021

Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

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Focusing on the themes of agency and ability, this chapter examines the power play at work between person and prosthetic part in various nineteenth-century imaginaries. The chapter draws from mechanical and materialist understandings of the human body and attitudes to automatic machines to place literary and cultural representations within wider historical contexts pertaining to ability, autonomy, and wholeness. Exploring the extent to which artificial body parts were seen to enhance or assume the agency of the user, the chapter argues that a range of prosthesis narratives produce transgressive prosthesis users or false body parts that threaten the dominance of the physically whole. It investigates three key tropes: narratives of disabling, self-acting, and weaponized prostheses.

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Unwinnable Wars, Unspeakable Wounds: Locating “The Man That Was Used Up”

Kennedy

2006

Poe Studies/Dark Romanticism

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Post-Human Mimesis and the Debunked Machine: Reading Environmental Appropriation in Poe's "Maelzel's Chess-Player" and "The Man That Was Used Up"

Cited by 8 publications

References 18 publications

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“The Infurnal Thing”: Autonomy and Ability in Narratives of Disabling, Self-acting, and Weaponized Prostheses

Unwinnable Wars, Unspeakable Wounds: Locating “The Man That Was Used Up”

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