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...Chute de la Malson d'Usher (1927) and The Golem (1924). Kirkland House Dining Hall, 8 and 10 April...
...nightmare of man being destroyed by a creature of his own making has always been with us. The first robot in literature was the Golem, a clay man made by the High Rabbi Lev Ben Bezalel of Prague in the 16th century. Animated by a slip of paper bearing the name of God, it murdered the Rabbi when he made it work on the Sabbath. The Biblical analog is the Tower of Babel, the presumptuous construction that called down God's wrath on man. But the Golem and the Tower of Babel are myths. Computers are real...
...Stressful Present. Two leaders of the new generation are Eduardo Paolozzi and Anthony Caro, both 41. Paolozzi turned from golem grotesques of junkyard assemblages of gears and bolts to hand-tooled totems, such as Artificial Sun, which are unthreatening icons to a world that accepts machine culture willingly. Caro, a Cambridge engineering graduate, worked with Moore for two years until "I'd come to feel that bronze was using me." So he began welding elegant elongated girderwork in steel instead of making "people substitutes" in bronze...
...from Harvard when he was 18, is best known for his work in mathematical communications and control systems; he first put forth his ideas in Cybernetics, published in 1948. Since then, he has never ceased his discussion of the relationship between man and the machines he creates. God and Golem, Inc., a consideration of "certain points where cybernetics impinges on religion," continues that discussion...
...During the heyday of abstract expressionism, Aronson's figurative works lost their audience Meanwhile he delved into the occult Cabalistic thought of the late-medieval European Jews, who saw nature as a deceptive cloak thrown over man's divine essence. Aronson's new subjects included the golem, or automaton, brought to life by magic and capable of either good or evil. Another was the dybbuk, a wicked spirit that can only be exorcised (usually through the small toe) by a wonder-working rabbi...