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Record Nr.

UNINA9910806821903321

Autore

Van den Eede Yoni

Titolo

Amor technologiae : Marshall McLuhan as philosopher of technology : toward a philosophy of human-media relationships / / Yoni Van Den Eede ; book design Yoni Van Den Eede

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Brussels, Belgium : , : VUBPress, , 2012

©2012

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (519 p.)

Disciplina

601

Soggetti

Technology - Philosophy

Technology - Social aspects

Mass media - Social aspects

Communication - Social aspects

Communication and culture

Mass media - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Front ""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Content""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Introducing a Protagonist: Marshall McLuhan, “Media Philosopher�""; ""3 �Love Is Blind�: Blindness in Relation to “What We Get�""; ""4 Love Is Happiness Is Suffering: Ambivalence in Relation to “What We Want�""; ""5 Revisiting a Protagonist: A Prelude to Stories of Illusion and Loss, One and Many, Stasis and Change""; ""6 Out of Ourselves: The Lover as the One Who Is Extended""; ""7 The In-between:""; ""The Love as Constitutive-Transformative Process""

""8 Fourfold Media: The Beloved as the Working �Core�""""9 Medial Nodes: An Eye for Objects, a Mind for Mediation, a Heart for Humans""; ""10 Us in Things: The Lovers� Fight in Technical Form � or, Material Ideology""; ""11 Mediation-of-Mediation: The “Loves� Multiplied � or, Medial Networks""; ""12 Politics in Things: Conspiracies of the Beloved � or, Things� Hidden Agenda""; ""13 A Pan-Medial Cosmology""; ""14 Into Ourselves: Is Narcissus a Narcissist by Design?""; ""15 In between Fixity and Adaptation: Home Is Where the



Brain Wires""

""16 Living the Object: Collectors by Design""""17 Living through the Stasis-Change Dynamic: Learning-as-Dialogue""; ""18 Concluding Remarks on Love""; ""Notes""; ""References""