Humanesis : sound and technological posthumanism

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cecchetto, David, Author.

Series:

Posthumanities Humanesis

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technology--Philosophy--20th century.

Technology.

Technology--Social aspects.

Humanism--History.

Humanism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (222 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] University of Minnesota Press 2013

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Humanesis critically examines central strains of posthumanism, searching out biases in the ways that human-technology coupling is explained and interrogating three approaches taken by posthumanist discourse: scientific, humanist, and organismic. David Cecchetto's investigations reveal how each perspective continues to hold on to elements of the humanist tradition that it is ostensibly mobilized against.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Posthumanism(s)

PART I

1. From Genes to Memes: Ollivier Dyens and the Scientific Posthumanism of Darwinian Evolution

2. Dark Matters: An Eidolic Collision of Sound and Vision

PART II

3. N. Katherine Hayles and Humanist Technological Posthumanism

4. The Trace: Melancholy and Posthuman Ethics

PART III

5. From Affect to Affectivity: Mark B. N. Hansen's Organismic Posthumanism

6. Skewed Remote Musical Performance: Sounding Deconstruction

Conclusion. Registration as Intervention: Performativity and Dominant Strains of Technological Posthumanism

Notes

Index

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-8166-8417-0