Necromedia / Marcel O'Gorman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Gorman, Marcel, author.

Series:

Posthumanities ; 33.

Posthumanities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--Philosophy.

Mass media.

Physical Description:

231 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2015]

Summary:

In Necromedia, media activist Marcel O'Gorman Takes Aim at "the collusion of death and technology," drawing on a broad arsenal that ranges from posthumanist philosophy and social psychology to digital art and handmade "objects-to-think-with." O'Gorman mixes philosophical speculation with artistic creation, personal memoir, and existential dread. He is not so much arguing against technoculture as documenting a struggle to embrace the technical essence of human being without permitting technology worshippers to have the last word on what it means to be human. Necromedia prescribes new research practices in the humanities that are designed to infiltrate and shape the technoculture that surrounds us. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Necromedia Theory and Posthumanism 7

2 Border Disorder 27

3 Telephone, Pager, Two-Way Speaker, and Other Technologies of Betrayal 37

4 Dreadmill 61

5 Angels in Digital Armor Technoculture, Terror Management and the Antihero 71

6 Cycle of Dread 95

7 Speculative Realism Unchained A Love Story 109

8 Myth of the Steersman 127

9 Digital Care, Curation, and Curriculum On Applied Media Theory 137

10 Roach Lab 165

11 From Dust to Data On Existential Terror and Horror Philosophy 171.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780816695706

0816695709

9780816695713

0816695717

OCLC:

887605369