Producing objects, producing texts: accounts of android automata in late eighteenth-century Europe

Using the famous android automata made by the Swiss clockmakers Jaquet-Droz as an example, this essay examines the relationship between the production of automata and the production of texts about them against the background of economic and cultural conditions of artisan production and of the emerging ‘media industry’ in the public sphere of the late eighteenth century on the European continent. It explores the artisan environment in which the automata came into being and develops readings of various types of texts on the automata, including analyses of the contexts and print media of which they were a part. The essay concludes by explaining two interrelated peculiarities about eighteenth-century texts on the Jaquet-Droz automata: the fact that none of the texts displayed any interest in the metaphysical or ethical consequences of artificial or mechanical humans, and that they were, on the contrary, often simply copied from each other and thus adhered to the customs and exigencies of the emerging media industry of the time. The pre-industrial, traditional, non-mass produced construction of the automata thus coincided with the emerging contemporary mass production of texts and media, and it makes these texts and their objects bring into focus a key paradox underlying the history of modernity, the mass production of individuals and of individuality.     

从世界CNC、FMC、FMS的发展论我国机床工业的振兴

本文概述国内外金属切削机床工业发展状况,进行了对比并探讨了振兴我国金属切削机床工业的对策。     

宁波市交通运输业向现代物流业转型面临的机遇和对策

交通运输业是宁波市的传统支柱性产业之一,在宁波经济发展中起着重要的作用.文章阐述了在面对国内交通运输业在向现代物流业转型的战略性结构的宏观背景下,宁波必须抓住当前交通运输发展的有利机遇,加快向现代物流业转型,并提出了相应对策.     

我国发展钢结构住宅的重要意义

论述了钢结构住宅对城市发展和提高住房质量所起的重要作用,以及其自身具有的灵活、安全、环保等优点所带来的综合经济效益和社会效益,对我国现阶段发展钢结构住宅具有重要意义.     

温度对聚环氧乙烷测定二氧化硅的影响

对用聚环氧乙烷测定SiO_2的温度条件进行了探讨,并针对硅酸盐工业对SiO_2测定结果精度的要求,拟定了最佳分析方案。     

Practice of Italian Trend Book in China

In the past five years, trendy information spread via imported renowned fashion magazines appeared unable to satisfy the industrial needs. Trend books from Milan and Paris have been introduced to big cities in China through official Chinese national agencies, and have gradually drawn more attention within the Chinese fashion industry. Chinese fashion businesses and their designers have difficulties in using the trend book. The main reason is that they don＇t understand the whole structure re of the book, the true meaning of the instruction and the way to use the book. Most companies are not using the book in the correct way. However, if no one realizes this is not the right key to the real fashion design world, an incorrect design logic and abnormal production chain will appear in China which will directly produce an unhealthy impact to the country. It＇s only possible to catch up and grasp the real European trend with Europe at the same time when the trend books are used correctly.     

浅谈形态学在工业设计专业教育中的重要性

阐述了产品形态设计要受到诸多因素影响,说明形态学教育的必要性；指出产品造型形式美的原理及其表现特征,提出今后的发展方向。     

国际产业发展历史与产业结构演变规律

本文以国际三次产业革命为主线。简述国际产业发展的历史。概括出国际产业发展从农业产业到工业产业。再到现代信息产业的逐步发展的一般规律。科学技术进步的强劲推动。使产业结构不断优化．产业的科技含量不断提升。以史为鉴．我国在产业发展过程中要树立科学的发展观，以知识产业和高新技术引领各产业协调发展，优化产业结构。     

提升山西省果业竞争力的几点建议

全面分析了山西省目前果业的生产状况及存在的问题，提出了加速果业发展，提升果品竞争力的建议。     

高职院校烹旅类专业产学研合作的实践与思索

本文阐述了烹旅类专业产学研合作的实践模式,从中总结了产学研合作的几点经验和有待进一步解决的问题。