| Description |
1 online resource (327 pages) |
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Postphenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology |
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Postphenomenology and the philosophy of technology.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- I. Interface -- 1. Posthuman Topologies -- 2. The Rhetorical Work of the GPS -- 3. Neo-Baroque Computing -- 4. Techno-Geographic Interfaces. II. Artifact -- 5. The Plastic Art of LEGO -- 6. The iPhone Erfahrung -- 7. Victorian Cybernetics -- 8. Extending "Extension" -- III. Users -- 9. Mobility Regimes and the Constitution of the Nineteenth-Century Posthuman Body -- 10. Living Deliberately, Less or More -- 11. Seduced by the Machine -- 12. Cybernetic Memory and the Construction of the Posthuman Self in Videogame Play -- 13. Mediating Anthropocene Planetary Attachments -- Index |
| Summary |
Though the progress of technology continually pushes life toward virtual existence, the last decade has witnessed a renewed focus on materiality. Design, Mediation, and the Posthuman bears witness to the attention paid by literary theorists, digital humanists, rhetoricians, philosophers, and designers to the crafted environment, the manner in which artifacts mediate human relations, and the constitution of a world in which the boundary between humans and things has seemingly imploded. The chapters reflect on questions about the extent to which we ought to view humans and nonhuman artifacts as having equal capacity for agency and life, and the ways in which technological mediation challenges the central tenets of humanism and anthropocentrism |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from pdf title page (EBL, viewed December 4, 2015) |
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Ontology.
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Philosophical anthropology.
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Technology.
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Human beings.
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Technology
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Humans
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ontology (metaphysics)
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philosophical anthropology.
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Homo sapiens (species)
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PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Humanism.
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Human beings
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Ontology
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Philosophical anthropology
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Technology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Weiss, Dennis M., 1960- editor.
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Propen, Amy D., editor.
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Reid, Colbey Emmerson, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780739191781 |
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0739191780 |
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