1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910828900003321

Titolo

Design, mediation, and the posthuman / / edited by Dennis M. Weiss, Amy D. Propen, and Colbey Emmerson Reid

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland ; ; London, England : , : Lexington Books, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4985-0115-X

0-7391-9178-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (327 p.)

Collana

Postphenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology

Disciplina

128

Soggetti

Philosophical anthropology

Ontology

Human beings

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; 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

About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

<span><span>Weiss, Propen, and Reid gather a diverse group of scholars to analyze the growing obsolescence of the human-object dichotomy in today''s world. In doing so, </span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">Radical Interface </span><span>brings together diverse disciplines to foster a dialog on significant technological issues pertinent to philosophy, rhetoric, aesthetics, and science.</span></span>