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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Weiss, Dennis M., editor.

Propen, Amy D., editor.

Reid, Colbey Emmerson, editor.

Series:

Postphenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophical anthropology.

Ontology.

Human beings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (327 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland ; London, England : Lexington Books, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<span><span>Weiss, Propen, and Reid gather a diverse group of scholars to analyze the growing obsolescence of the human-object dichotomy in today''s world. In doing so, </span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">Radical Interface </span><span>brings together diverse disciplines to foster a dialog on significant technological issues pertinent to philosophy, rhetoric, aesthetics, and science.</span></span>

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I: Interface; 1 Posthuman Topologies; 2 The Rhetorical Work of the GPS; 3 Neo-Baroque Computing; 4 Techno-Geographic Interfaces; II: Artifact; 5 The Plastic Art of LEGO; 6 The iPhone Erfahrung; 7 Victorian Cybernetics; 8 Extending "Extension"; III: Users; 9 Mobility Regimes and the Constitution of the Nineteenth-Century Posthuman Body; 10 Living Deliberately, Less or More; 11 Seduced by the Machine; 12 Cybernetic Memory and the Construction of the Posthuman Self in Videogame Play; 13 Mediating Anthropocene Planetary Attachments; Index

About the Contributors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 27, 2014).

ISBN:

1-4985-0115-X

0-7391-9178-0

OCLC:

888747521