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Record Nr.

UNINA9910964028303321

Autore

Cecchetto David

Titolo

Humanesis : sound and technological posthumanism

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified], : University of Minnesota Press, 2013

ISBN

0-8166-8417-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (222 pages)

Collana

Posthumanities  Humanesis

Disciplina

303.48/3

Soggetti

Technology - Philosophy - 20th century

Technology - Social aspects

Humanism - History

Engineering & Applied Sciences

Technology - General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Posthumanism(s) -- PART I -- 1. From Genes to Memes: Ollivier Dyens and the Scientific Posthumanism of Darwinian Evolution -- 2. Dark Matters: An Eidolic Collision of Sound and Vision -- PART II -- 3. N. Katherine Hayles and Humanist Technological Posthumanism -- 4. The Trace: Melancholy and Posthuman Ethics -- PART III -- 5. From Affect to Affectivity: Mark B. N. Hansen's Organismic Posthumanism -- 6. Skewed Remote Musical Performance: Sounding Deconstruction -- Conclusion. Registration as Intervention: Performativity and Dominant Strains of Technological Posthumanism -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

Sommario/riassunto

Humanesis critically examines central strains of posthumanism, searching out biases in the ways that human-technology coupling is explained and interrogating three approaches taken by posthumanist discourse: scientific, humanist, and organismic. David Cecchetto's investigations reveal how each perspective continues to hold on to elements of the humanist tradition that it is ostensibly mobilized against.