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Dorsality : thinking back through technology and politics / David Wills.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wills, David, 1953-
- Series:
- Posthumanities ; 5.
- Posthumanities ; v. 5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Technology--Philosophy.
- Technology.
- Political science--Philosophy.
- Political science.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (281 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this highly original book David Wills rethinks not only our nature before all technology but also what we understand to be technology. Rather than considering the human being as something natural that then develops technology, Wills argues, we should instead imagine an originary imbrication of nature and machine that begins with a dorsal turn-a turn that takes place behind our back, outside our field of vision.
- Contents:
- The dorsal turn
- Facades of the other : Heidegger, Althusser, Levinas
- No one home : Homer, Joyce, Broch
- A line drawn in the ocean : Exodus, Freud, Rimbaud
- Friendship in torsion : Schmitt, Derrida
- Revolutions in the darkroom : Balazs, Benjamin, Sade
- The controversy of dissidence : Nietzsche.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-5668-1
- OCLC:
- 476167545
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