Martinez, Mark A.2015-06-232015-06-232013-01https://hdl.handle.net/11299/172671University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. January 2013. Major: Communication Studies. Advisor: Ronald Walter Greene. 1 computer file (PDF); vi, 275 pages.This dissertation discusses the ways that scientific thought and philosophy have theorized human life and machines in western thought.enMachineMediaPhilosophyPosthumanScienceTechnologyCommunication studiesThesis or Dissertation