{"id":2521,"date":"2009-07-20T19:37:19","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T00:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=2521"},"modified":"2009-08-17T19:38:18","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T00:38:18","slug":"the-man-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=2521","title":{"rendered":"the Man-Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Willard posted an interesting note on Humanist 23.167 about human-machine interaction before cybernetics. He mentions how the cyborg argument was in circulation before Wiener and gives as an example from Life Magazine in 1944, \u201cMechanical Brains: Working in Metal Boxes, Computing Devices Aim Guns and Bombs with Inhuman Accuracy.\u201d While the article isn\u2019t on line there are Alfred Crimi drawings in the Hagley Digital Archives<\/a> for the article. The images, as Willard says are startling. They show man-machine more than any explanation I can come up with.<\/p>\n

Then again there is Randall Jarrell\u2019s poem \u201cThe Death of the Ball Turret Gunner\u201d which is also about just such a Sperry turret<\/a>,<\/p>\n

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From my mother's sleep I fell into the State,\r\nAnd I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.\r\nSix miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life,\r\nI woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.\r\nWhen I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Note that for Jarrell the machine is the State of which the bomber is but a belly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Willard posted an interesting note on Humanist 23.167 about human-machine interaction before cybernetics. He mentions how the cyborg argument was in circulation before Wiener and gives as an example from Life Magazine in 1944, \u201cMechanical Brains: Working in Metal Boxes, Computing Devices Aim Guns and Bombs with Inhuman Accuracy.\u201d While the article isn\u2019t on line … Continue reading the Man-Machine<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2522,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521\/revisions\/2522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}