Rather than the illusion of control that cabinets of curiosities offered centuries ago by facilitating an encyclopedic knowledge of the natural world, the dreamlike microcosm in "Ghosts in the Machine" anticipates a dematerialized digital culture.

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She was, in fact, a throwback to a different age, when gentlemen of means (and the Rothschilds had plenty of those) set up their own home laboratories and cabinets of curiosities, and pursued science for the sheer joy of it.

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The most capital pictures, the finest Dresden and other china, cabinets of more minute curiosities .

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