Design, Mediation, and the Posthuman (eBook)

Amy D. Propen, Colbey Emmerson Reid, Dennis M. Weiss (Herausgeber)

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2014
336 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-9178-1 (ISBN)

Infos

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, Radical Interface brings together diverse disciplines to foster a dialog on significant technological issues pertinent to philosophy, rhetoric, aesthetics, and science.

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Though the progress of technology continually pushes life toward virtual existence, the last decade has witnessed a renewed focus on materiality. Design, Mediation, and the Posthuman bears witness to the attention paid byliterary theorists, digital humanists, rhetoricians, philosophers, and designers to the crafted environment, the manner in which artifacts mediate human relations, and the constitution of a world in which the boundary between humans and things has seemingly imploded. The chapters reflect on questions about the extent to which we ought to view humans and nonhuman artifacts as having equal capacity for agency and life, and the ways in which technological mediation challenges the central tenets of humanism and anthropocentrism.Contemporary theories of human-object relations presage the arrival of the posthuman, which is no longer a futuristic or science-fictional concept but rather one descriptive of the present, and indeed, the past. Discussions of the posthuman already have a long history in fields like literary theory, rhetoric, and philosophy, and as advances in design and technology result in increasingly engaging artifacts that mediate more and more aspects of everyday life, it becomes necessary to engage in a systematic, interdisciplinary, critical examination of the intersection of the domains of design, technological mediation, and the posthuman. Thus, this collection brings diverse disciplines together to foster a dialogue on significant technological issues pertinent to philosophy, rhetoric, aesthetics, and science.

Autor

Dennis Weiss is professor of philosophy in the English and Humanities Department at York College of Pennsylvania. Amy Propen is lecturer of rhetoric and composition in the Writing Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Colbey Emmerson Reid is director of the Consumer Innovation Consortium in the Poole College of Management at North Carolina State University.

Inhalt

Introduction: MIND versus THING and Other ‘Central Events’ of the Twenty-First CenturyPart One: InterfaceIntroductionChapter One: Posthuman Topologies: Thinking Through the Hoard, Anthony MiccoliChapter Two: The Rhetorical Work of the GPS: Geographic Knowledge-Making and the Technologically-Mediated Body, Amy D. PropenChapter Three: Neo-Baroque Computing: Interface and the Subject-Object Divide, Elise TakehanaChapter Four: Techno-Geographic Interfaces: Layers of Text and Agency in Mobile Augmented Reality, John TinnellPart Two: ArtifactIntroductionChapter Five: The Plastic Art of LEGO: An Essay into Material Culture, Jonathan Rey LeeChapter Six: The iPhone Erfahrung: Siri, the Auditory Unconscious, and Walter Benjamin’s “Aura”, Emily McArthurChapter Seven: Victorian Cybernetics: Networking Technology, Disability and Interior Design, Colbey Emmerson ReidChapter Eight: Extending “Extension”: A Reappraisal of the Technology-as-Extension Idea through the Case of Self-Tracking Technologies, Yoni Van Den EedePart Three: UsersIntroductionChapter Nine: Mobility Regimes and the Constitution of the Nineteenth-Century Posthuman Body, Kristie Fleckenstein and Josh MehlerChapter Ten: Living Deliberately, Less or More: Affirmative Cynicism and Radical Design, Matthew A. LevyChapter Eleven: Seduced by the Machine: Human-Technology Relations and Sociable Robots, Dennis M. WeissChapter Twelve: “You really are you, right?”: Cybernetic Memory and the Construction of the Posthuman Self in Videogame Play, Brendan KeoghChapter Thirteen: Mediating Anthropocene Planetary Attachments: Lars von Trier’s Melancholia, Nicole Merola

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.8.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Postphenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology
• Co-Autor: Yoni Van Den Eede, Elise Takehana, John Tinnell, Kristie S. Fleckenstein, Brendan Keogh, Jonathan Rey Lee, Matthew A. Levy, Emily McArthur, Josh Mehler, Nicole M. Merola, Anthony Miccoli
• Zusatzinfo: 13 Illustrations including: - 13 Black & White Illustrations.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
• Schlagworte: digital humanities • human-object relations • Literary Studies • Literary Theory • Media Studies • Nonhuman • Philosophy of Technology • posthumanism • rhetorics of technology • Technological mediation
• ISBN-10: 0-7391-9178-0 / 0739191780
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-9178-1 / 9780739191781