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The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor brings together a series of essays bridging intellectual history and the history of the body tracing the shift from the eighteenth-century concept of man as machine to the late twentieth-century concept of digital organisms. The book looks at …
From mimetic machines to digital organisms -- Social energeticism in fin-de-siècle Europe -- Social knowledge and the politics of industrial accidents -- Neurasthenia and modernity -- Psychotechnics and politics in Weimar Germany -- The aesthetics of production in the Third Reic…
The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor traces the shift from the eighteenth-century concept of man as machine to the late-twentieth-century notion of digital organisms. Step by step - from Jacques de Vaucanson and his Digesting Duck, through Karl Marx's Capital, Hermann von Helmhol…
The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor
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The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor brings together a series of essays bridging intellectual history and the history of the body tracing the shift from the eighteenth-century concept of man as machine to the late twentieth-century concept of digital organisms. The book looks at …
Applied anatomy and biomechanics in sport
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Applied Anatomy and Biomechanics in Sport
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Focuses on the various ways in which an athlete, whether the average participant or the elite competitor, can modify technique to achieve optimal performance. This volume helps readers learn to recognise and use appropriate methods to develop optimal physical qualities for skill…
"The application of sport science to coaching has become the most important factor behind the rapid advances in elite sport performances of the past 20 years. Applied Anatomy and Biomechanics in Sport, Second Edition, builds on this idea by helping coaches and sport scientists t…
This text concentrates on the various ways in which an athlete, whether the average participant or the elite competitor, can modify technique to achieve optimal performance. The chapters include posture, strength, speed, balance and agility, and much more.
"The application of sport science to coaching has become the most important factor behind the rapid advances in elite sport performances of the past 20 years. Applied Anatomy and Biomechanics in Sport, Second Edition, builds on this idea by helping coaches and sport scientists t…
