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Rhetoric and ethics in the cybernetic age : the transhuman condition / Jeff Pruchnic.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pruchnic, Jeff, author.
- Series:
- Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication
- Routledge studies in rhetoric and communication ; 17
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Internet--Social aspects.
- Internet.
- Internet--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Information technology--Social aspects.
- Information technology.
- Information technology--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (220 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- It has become increasingly difficult to ignore the ways that the centrality of new media and technologies - from the global networking of information systems and social media to new possibilities for altering human genetics - seem to make obsolete our traditional ways of thinking about ethics and persuasive communication inherited from earlier humanist paradigms. This book argues that rather than devoting our critical energies towards critiquing humanist touchstones, we should instead examine the ways in which media and technologies have always worked as crucial cultural forces in shaping ethi
- Contents:
- Cover; Rhetoric and Ethics in the Cybernetic Age; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Cybernetic Age; 1 The Transhuman Condition; 2 The Age of the World Program: The Convergence of Technics and Media; 3 Rhetoric in the Age of Intelligent Machines: Burke on Affect and Persuasion after Cybernetics; 4 Any Number Can Play: Burroughs, Deleuze, and the Limits of Control; 5 On the Genealogy of Mortals; or, Commodifying Ethics; Notes; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed August 31, 2013).
- ISBN:
- 1-138-21874-X
- 0-203-76841-8
- 1-135-02265-8
- 1-135-02266-6
- 9780203768419
- OCLC:
- 855970192
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