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Describing the path of technological progress, Marcelo Rinesi likes to point out an early 19th century drawing by a paranoid schizophrenic Welsh man named James Tilly Matthews. The sketch, reproduced in a book called Illustrations of Madness, is considered to be one of the first published pictures by a mental patient.
It depicts a so-called Influence Machine, a term psychiatrists borrowed from the study of static electricity to describe the elaborate mechanical contraptions drawn by (...)