LEADER 04691nam 2200889 450 001 9910813665603321 005 20230126213254.0 010 $a0-8232-5619-7 010 $a0-8232-6132-8 010 $a0-8232-5617-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823256198 035 $a(CKB)3710000000216402 035 $a(EBL)3239920 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001441491 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11759818 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001441491 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11393994 035 $a(PQKB)10602606 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000985641 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4803872 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239920 035 $a(DE-B1597)555427 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823256198 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3239920 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10904485 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL727784 035 $a(OCoLC)923764449 035 $a(OCoLC)889302731 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1961788 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1961788 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000216402 100 $a20140811h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|nu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWhere are you? $ean ontology of the cell phone /$fMaurizio Ferraris ; translated by Sarah De Sanctis 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aNew York :$cFordham University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (247 p.) 225 1 $aCommonalities 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-322-96502-1 311 $a0-8232-5615-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tFOREWORD: TRUTH AND THE MOBILE PHONE --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tTRANSLATOR?S NOTE --$tINTRODUCTION: WHERE ARE YOU? --$t1. SPEAKING --$t2. WRITING --$t3. RECORDING --$t4. CONSTRUCTING --$tTHE BOTTLE IMP --$t5. STRONG REALISM --$t6. STRONG TEXTUALISM --$t7. WEAK REALISM --$t8. WEAK TEXTUALISM --$tEPILOGUE --$tNOTES --$tREFERENCES --$tINDEX 330 $aThis book sheds light on the most philosophically interesting of contemporary objects: the cell phone. ?Where are you???a question asked over cell phones myriad times each day?is arguably the most philosophical question of our age, given the transformation of presence the cell phone has wrought in contemporary social life and public space. Throughout all public spaces, cell phones are now a ubiquitous prosthesis of what Descartes and Hegel once considered the absolute tool: the hand. Their power comes in part from their ability to move about with us?they are like a computer, but we can carry them with us at all times?in part from what they attach to us (and how), as all that computational and connective power becomes both handy and hand-sized. Quite surprisingly, despite their name, one might argue, as Ferraris does, that cell phones are not really all that good for sound and speaking. Instead, the main philosophical point of this book is that mobile phones have come into their own as writing machines?they function best for text messages, e-mail, and archives of all kinds. Their philosophical urgency lies in the manner in which they carry us from the effects of voice over into reliance upon the written traces that are, Ferraris argues, the basic stuff of human culture. Ontology is the study of what there is, and what there is in our age is a huge network of documents, papers, and texts of all kinds. Social reality is not constructed by collective intentionality; rather, it is made up of inscribed acts. As Derrida already prophesized, our world revolves around writing. Cell phones have attached writing to our fingers and dragged it into public spaces in a new way. This is why, with their power to obliterate or morph presence and replace voice with writing, the cell phone is such a philosophically interesting object. 410 0$aCommonalities. 606 $aCell phones$xSocial aspects 606 $aCell phones 606 $aOntology 610 $aCollective Intentionality. 610 $aDerrida. 610 $aDocumentality. 610 $aEpistemology. 610 $aMobile Phone. 610 $aOntology. 610 $aRealism. 610 $aSearle. 610 $aSocial Reality. 610 $aTextualism. 610 $aWriting. 615 0$aCell phones$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aCell phones. 615 0$aOntology. 676 $a303.4833 700 $aFerraris$b Maurizio$010751 702 $aDe Sanctis$b Sarah 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910813665603321 996 $aWhere are you$93932789 997 $aUNINA