L'outre-humain

Enter a world both fascinating and disturbing, that of the automata, androids, mechanical dolls and other living mannequins that populated the imagination at the beginning of the 20th century. Edited by Mireille Berton and Stéphane Tralongo, this book explores how spectacular cultures absorbed and reinvented the automaton, an emblematic figure of techno-scientific modernity. From opera to magic theater and early cinema, discover how these mechanical beings inhabited the stages and captivated the audiences of their time, already testing the hypothesis of a beyond of the human. At the crossroads of literary, theatrical, film and media studies, this book offers a historical, multidisciplinary and intermedial perspective on the relationship between humans and machines, as well as on the tensions it has generated.