Dorsality : Thinking Back through Technology and Politics.
Title:
Dorsality : Thinking Back through Technology and Politics.
Author:
Wills, David.
ISBN:
9780816656684
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (281 pages)
Series:
Posthumanities
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Dorsal Turn -- 2 Facades of the Other: Heidegger, Althusser, Levinas -- 3 No One Home: Homer, Joyce, Broch -- 4 A Line Drawn in the Ocean: Exodus, Freud, Rimbaud -- 5 Friendship in Torsion: Schmitt, Derrida -- 6 Revolutions in the Darkroom: Balázs, Benjamin, Sade -- 7 The Controversy of Dissidence: Nietzsche -- Notes -- Illustration Credits -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Abstract:
In this highly original book David Wills rethinks not only our nature before all technology but also what we understand to be technology. Rather than considering the human being as something natural that then develops technology, Wills argues, we should instead imagine an originary imbrication of nature and machine that begins with a dorsal turn-a turn that takes place behind our back, outside our field of vision.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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