The Uncanny: Experiments in Cyborg Culture

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Documenting the image of the cyborg in all its imaginative guises, THE UNCANNY includes essays and excerpts by Allan Antliff, Bruno Bettelheim, Randy Lee Cutler, Freud, William Gibson, Bruce Grenville, Makiko Hara, Donna Haraway, Masanori Oda, Jeanne Randolph and Toshiya Ueno. One of the most persistent and intriguing cultural images of the last century, the cyborg exists at the intersection of science, technology and culture, and is understood here as an uncanny' image that reflects our shared fascination and dread of the machine and its presence in our daily lives.'

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Bruce Grenville is the author of a number of books on culture, science and technology including Active Surplus: The Economy of the Object and Allegorical Image in Recent Canadian Paintings.