Machine / Thomas Pringle, Gertrude Koch, Bernard Stiegler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pringle, Thomas, author.

Stiegler, Bernard, author.

Koch, Gertrude, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technology--Philosophy.

Technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 103 pages)

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, 2019.

Summary:

Automation,animation, and ecosystems are terms of central media-philosophical concern intoday's society of humans and machines. This volume describes the socialconsequences of machines as a mediating concept for the animation of life andautomation of technology.

Contents:

Introduction: Un/Civil engineering / Thomas Pringle

1. Animation of the technical and the quest for beauty / Gertrud Koch

2. For a neganthropology of automatic society / Bernard Stiegler

3. The ecosystem is an apparatus: from machinic ecology to the politics of resilience / Thomas Pringle.

Notes:

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