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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fleckenstein, Kristie S., author.

Keogh, Brendan, author.

Lee, Jonathan Rey, author.

Levy, Matthew A., author.

McArthur, Emily, author.

Mehler, Josh, author.

Merola, Nicole M., author.

Miccoli, Anthony, 1972- author.

Propen, Amy D., author, editor.

Reid, Colbey Emmerson, author, editor.

Takehana, Elise, author.

Tinnell, John, author.

Eede, Yoni van den, author.

Weiss, Dennis M., 1960- author, editor.

Series:

Postphenomenology and the philosophy of technology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ontology.

Philosophical anthropology.

Technology.

Human beings.

Physical Description:

xxxvii, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2014]

Summary:

Though the progress of technology continually pushes life toward virtual existence, the last decade has witnessed a renewed focus on materiality. Design, Mediation, and the Posthuman bears witness to the attention paid by literary theorists, digital humanists, rhetoricians, philosophers, and designers to the crafted environment, the manner in which artifacts mediate human relations, and the constitution of a world in which the boundary between humans and things has seemingly imploded. The chapters reflect on questions about the extent to which we ought to view humans and nonhuman artifacts as having equal capacity for agency and life, and the ways in which technological mediation challenges the central tenets of humanism and anthropocentrism. Contemporary theories of human-object relations presage the arrival of the posthuman, which is no longer a futuristic or science-fictional concept, but rather one descriptive of the present and, indeed, the past. Discussions of the posthuman already have a long history in fields like literary theory, rhetoric, and philosophy, and as advances in design and technology result in increasingly engaging artifacts that mediate more and more aspects of everyday life, it becomes necessary to engage in a systematic, interdisciplinary, critical examination of the intersection of the domains of design, technological mediation, and the posthuman. Thus, this collection brings diverse disciplines together to foster a dialogue on significant technological issues pertinent to philosophy, rhetoric, aesthetics, and science. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

I. Interface. Posthuman topologies / Anthony Miccoli

The rhetorical work of the GPS / Amy D. Propen

Neo-Baroque computing / EliseTakehana

Techno-geographic interfaces / John Tinnell

II. Artifact. The plastic art of LEGO / Jonathan Rey Lee

The iPhone "Erfahrung" / Emily McArthur

Victorian cybernetics / Colbey EmmersonReid

Extending "Extension" / Yoni Van Den Eede

III. Users. Mobility regimes and the constitution of the nineteenth-century posthuman body / Kristie S. Fleckenstein and Josh Mehler

Living deliberately, less or more / Matthew A. Levy

Seduced by the machine / Dennis M. Weiss

Cybernetic memory and the construction of the posthuman self in videogame play / Brendan Keogh

Mediating anthropocene planetary attachments / Nicole M. Merola.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780739191774

0739191772

OCLC:

880566098

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