Title of article
The Tyranny of Cybernetics in Kurt Vonnegut’s Player Piano
Author/Authors
Babaee، Ruzbeh نويسنده Faculty of Modern Languages and Communication,University Putra Malaysia,Malaysia , , Bt Wan Yahya، Wan Roselezam نويسنده Faculty of Modern Languages and Communication,University Putra Malaysia,Malaysia , , Sivagurunathan، Shivani نويسنده University of Nottingham, Campus of Malaysia,Malaysia ,
Issue Information
دوماهنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2014
Pages
7
From page
195
To page
201
Abstract
Kurt Vonnegut’s Player Piano (1952) illustrates people who become enslaved to a controlling system of cybernetics that enhances its power through computer, consumer culture, and advertising industry in postwar America. In this study, I investigate Player Piano through the idea of cybernetics that reduces human beings into intelligent machines and mindless bodies. Player Piano constitutes an effort to make sense of powerful systems through the metaphors of the machine. It is a struggle to illustrate a deterministic attitude of the universe that leaves human with no choice.
Keywords
Cybernetics , dystopia , 1950s America , Advertising industry , consumer culture
Journal title
International Journal Of Applied Linguistics And English Literature
Serial Year
2014
Journal title
International Journal Of Applied Linguistics And English Literature
Record number
2405295
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