Posthumanism and the Digital University

Texts, Bodies and Materialities

Dr Lesley Gourlay (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

200 Seiten

2022
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-19403-8 (ISBN)

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It is a commonplace in educational policy and theory to claim that digital technology has ‘transformed’ the university, the nature of learning and even the essence of what it means to be a scholar or a student. However, these claims have not always been based on strong research evidence. What are students and scholars actually doing in the day-to-day life of the digital university?

This book examines in detail how the world of the digital interacts with texts, artefacts, devices and humans, in the contemporary university setting. Weaving together perspectives from a range of thinkers and disciplinary sources, Lesley Gourlay draws on ideas from posthuman and new materialist theory in particular, to open up our understanding about how digital knowledge practices operate. She proposes that digital engagement in the university should not be regarded as ‘virtual’ or disembodied, but instead may be understood as a complex set of entanglements of the body, texts and material artefacts, making a case that agency and the ways in which knowledge emerges should be regarded as ‘more than human’.

Lesley Gourlay is Professor of Education at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK.

Introduction
1. More Than Human
2. Matter
3. Body
4. Presence
5. Interfaces
6. Wayfaring
7. Quantum
8. Document
9. Conclusions, or So What?
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	16.01.2021
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 232 mm
Gewicht	620 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
ISBN-10	1-350-19403-4 / 1350194034
ISBN-13	978-1-350-19403-8 / 9781350194038
Zustand	Neuware