Rethinking Technologies.
Title:
Rethinking Technologies.
Author:
Conley, Verena Andermatt.
ISBN:
9780816684892
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (265 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. Questioning Technologies -- 1. The Third Interval: A Critical Transition -- 2. Machinic Heterogenesis -- 3. War, Law, Sovereignty - Techné -- 4. Our Narcotic Modernity -- Part II. Technology and the Environment -- 5. Eco-Subjects -- 6. Age of Paranoia -- 7. Heidegger and the Rhetoric of Submission: Technology and Passivity -- Part III. Technology and the Arts -- 8. Technical Performance: Postmodernism, Angst, or Agony of Modernism? -- 9. The Technology of Death and Its Limits: The Problem of the Simulation Model -- Part IV. Technology and Cyberspace -- 10. The Seductions of Cyberspace -- 11. The Leap and the Lapse: Hacking a Private Site in Cyberspace -- 12. Telefigures and Cyberspace -- Works Cited -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Abstract:
Grounded on the assumption that the relationship between the arts and the sciences is dictated by technology, the essays in Rethinking Technologies explore trends in contemporary thought that have been changing our awareness of science, technology, and the arts.
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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