French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-3981-4 (ISBN)
French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn traces a genealogy of thinking and writing about technology, which takes us from the French avant-gardes to the contemporary ‘nonhuman turn’ in Anglo-American theory via the Surrealists, Gilbert Simondon, and Gilles Deleuze.
Tracking the unruly transition from Catholic vocabularies of grace, potentiality, and actuality to the modern and contemporary secular lexicon of agency, virtuality, and affect, this book explores technology as a source of subject matter and conceptual metaphors, but also probes how ideas and words are modes of technicity through which we shape and reshape the world. Fusing literature, philosophy, and theology, it offers readers new contexts – and questions – for the egalitarian ontological commitments of contemporary post- and nonhuman thinking.
Madeleine Chalmers is Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Leicester. Her work revives modern French avant-garde writings to engage critically with twenty-first-century questions in the fields of science, technology, and epistemology.
List of Figures
Series Editor's Preface
Acknowledgements
Note on Editions
Introduction: Unruly Technics
Technologos
1. The Technologos: A Sacrament of Synthesis
2. Technics of the Fiat: The Metaphysical Machines of Jean Richepin, Villiers de l’Isle-Adam, Marcel Schwob, and Alfred Jarry
3. Charles Cros and the Time of the Technologos
Apocalypse
4. Technics and the Apocalypse: Didier de Chousy
5. Technics and the Virtual: Alfred Jarry and Henri Bergson
6. The Therapeutic Algorithms of Raymond Roussel
Ontotechnics
7. Surreal Technics I: André Breton’s Toolbox
8. Surreal Technics II: Tinkering with Gilbert Simondon
9. Gilles Deleuze and the Technologos
Conclusion: For the Love of Technics
Bibliography
| Erscheinungsdatum | 05.12.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Crosscurrents |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-3995-3981-7 / 1399539817 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-3995-3981-4 / 9781399539814 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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