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Autore |
Pruchnic Jeff |
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Titolo |
Rhetoric and ethics in the cybernetic age : the transhuman condition / / Jeff Pruchnic |
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2014 |
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ISBN |
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1-138-21874-X |
0-203-76841-8 |
1-135-02265-8 |
1-135-02266-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (220 p.) |
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Collana |
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Routledge studies in rhetoric and communication ; ; 17 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Internet - Social aspects |
Internet - Moral and ethical aspects |
Information technology - Social aspects |
Information technology - Moral and ethical aspects |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Rhetoric and Ethics in the Cybernetic Age; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Cybernetic Age; 1 The Transhuman Condition; 2 The Age of the World Program: The Convergence of Technics and Media; 3 Rhetoric in the Age of Intelligent Machines: Burke on Affect and Persuasion after Cybernetics; 4 Any Number Can Play: Burroughs, Deleuze, and the Limits of Control; 5 On the Genealogy of Mortals; or, Commodifying Ethics; Notes; References; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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It has become increasingly difficult to ignore the ways that the centrality of new media and technologies - from the global networking of information systems and social media to new possibilities for altering human genetics - seem to make obsolete our traditional ways of thinking about ethics and persuasive communication inherited from earlier humanist paradigms. This book argues that rather than devoting our critical energies towards critiquing humanist touchstones, we should instead examine the ways in which media and technologies have |
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