Archaeologies of Touch : Interfacing with Haptics from Electricity to Computing / David Parisi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parisi, David Harlan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Haptic devices.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (468 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2018.

Summary:

David Parisi offers the first full history of new computing technologies known as haptic interfaces--which use electricity, vibration, and force feedback to stimulate the sense of touch--showing how the efforts of scientists and engineers over the past 300 years have gradually remade and redefined our sense of touch. Archaeologies of Touch offers a timely and provocative engagement with the long history of touch technology that helps us confront and question the power relations underpinning the project of giving touch its own set of technical media.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Preface. Interrupting the Networked Body

Acknowledgments

Introduction. Haptic Interfaces and the Quest to Reinscribe Tactility

Interface 1. The Electrotactile Machine

Interface 2. The Haptic

Interface 3. The Tongue of the Skin

Interface 4. Human- Machine Tactile Communication

Interface 5. The Cultural Construction of Technologized Touch

Coda. Haptics and the Reordering of the Mediated Sensorium

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-4529-5618-9

OCLC:

1023028448