TechnoLogics : ghosts, the incalculable, and the suspension of animation / Gray Kochhar-Lindgren.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kochhar-Lindgren, Gray.

Series:

SUNY series in postmodern culture.

SUNY series in postmodern culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technology--Social aspects.

Technology.

Civilization--Philosophy.

Civilization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Adding to the growing field of posthuman or cyborg studies, TechnoLogics explores how our position in the technologized world reorders, in the most radical ways imaginable, our basic experience of the lines governing literary, philosophical, and cultural production. The ancient dream of immortality is now becoming realized through cloning, genetic research, and artificial intelligence, bringing with it the need for new forms of both reading and living in the everyday world. In this emerging cyborg culture, what is to come for us is not predictable but, instead, an open possibility to be shaped by the work of, among others, artists, computer designers, scientists, and writers. Through encounters with Plato, Melville, Marx, Jünger, Heidegger, Freud, Derrida, Baudrillard, and others, Gray Kochhar-Lindgren identifies the causes, characteristics, and links between the most primordial of wishes—immortality—and the highest of high tech, and asks how, in our culture of technocapitalism, we can continue to listen to the faint call of ethics.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Laying Down the Power Grid

Call Forwarding

On-(the)-Line

The Platonic Teleport

Ghosts in the Machines

The Elixir of Life

The Immortality Machine of Capitalism

Bartleby the Incalculable

The Suspension of Animation

The Drone of Technocapitalism

The Psychotelemetry of Surveillance

Temps: Time, Work, and the Delay

Conclusion: Heeding the Phantomenological

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-220) and index.

ISBN:

9780791483985

0791483983

9781423748625

142374862X

OCLC:

461442194