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Author : Mark Hansen
Release : 2000
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 629/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Embodying Technesis by : Mark Hansen
Download or read book Embodying Technesis written by Mark Hansen. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a radical revision of our understanding of the technological
Author : Albena Lutzkanova-Vassileva
Release : 2016-06-30
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 664/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Testimonies of Russian and American Postmodern Poetry by : Albena Lutzkanova-Vassileva
Download or read book The Testimonies of Russian and American Postmodern Poetry written by Albena Lutzkanova-Vassileva. This book was released on 2016-06-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges the belief in the purely linguistic nature of contemporary poetry and offers an interpretation of late twentieth-century Russian poetry as a testimony to the unforeseen annulment of communist reality and its overnight displacement by a completely unfathomable post-totalitarian order. Albena Lutzkanova-Vassileva argues that, because of the sudden invalidation of a reality that had been largely seen as unattained and everlasting, this shift remained secluded from the mind and totally resistant to cognition, thus causing a collectively traumatic psychological experience. The book proceeds by inquiring into a school of contemporary American poetry that has been likewise read as cut off from reality. Executing a comparative analysis, Vassileva advances a new understanding of this poetry as a testimony to the overwhelming and traumatic impact of contemporary media, which have assailed the mind with far more signals than it can register, digest and furnish with semantic weight.
Author : David Cecchetto
Release : 2013-06-01
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 189/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Humanesis by : David Cecchetto
Download or read book Humanesis written by David Cecchetto. This book was released on 2013-06-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humanesis critically examines central strains of posthumanism, searching out biases in the ways that human–technology coupling is explained. Specifically, it interrogates three approaches taken by posthumanist discourse: scientific, humanist, and organismic. David Cecchetto’s investigations reveal how each perspective continues to hold on to elements of the humanist tradition that it is ostensibly mobilized against. His study frontally desublimates the previously unseen presumptions that underlie each of the three thought lines and offers incisive appraisals of the work of three prominent thinkers: Ollivier Dyens, Katherine Hayles, and Mark Hansen. To materially ground the problematic of posthumanism, Humanesis interweaves its theoretical chapters with discussions of artworks. These highlight the topos of sound, demonstrating how aurality might produce new insights in a field that has been dominated by visualization. Cecchetto, a media artist, scrutinizes his own collaborative artistic practice in which he elucidates the variegated causal chains that compose human–technological coupling. Humanesis advances the posthumanist conversation in several important ways. It proposes the term “technological posthumanism” to focus on the discourse as it relates to technology without neglecting its other disciplinary histories. It suggests that deconstruction remains relevant to the enterprise, especially with respect to the performative dimension of language. It analyzes artworks not yet considered in the light of posthumanism, with a particular emphasis on the role of aurality. And the form of the text introduces a reflexive component that exemplifies how the dialogue of posthumanism might progress without resorting to the types of unilateral narratives that the book critiques.
Author : Bridie McGreavy
Release : 2017-11-27
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 119/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Tracing Rhetoric and Material Life by : Bridie McGreavy
Download or read book Tracing Rhetoric and Material Life written by Bridie McGreavy. This book was released on 2017-11-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together three areas of scholarship and practice: rhetoric, material life, and ecology. The chapters build a multi-layered understanding of material life by gathering scholars from varied theoretical and critical traditions around the common theme of ecology. Emphasizing relationality, connectedness and context, the ecological orientation we build informs both rhetorical theory and environmentalist interventions. Contributors offer practical-theoretical inquiries into several areas - rhetoric’s cosmologies, the trophe, bioregional rhetoric’s, nuclear colonialism, and more - collectively forging new avenues of communication among scholars in environmental communication, communication studies, and rhetoric and composition. This book aims at inspiring and advancing ecological thinking, demonstrating its value for rhetoric and communication as well as for environmental thought and action.
Author : Shaoling Ma
Release : 2021-05-03
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 052/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Stone and the Wireless by : Shaoling Ma
Download or read book The Stone and the Wireless written by Shaoling Ma. This book was released on 2021-05-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the final decades of the Manchu Qing dynasty in China, technologies such as the phonograph, telephone, telegraph, and photography were both new and foreign. In The Stone and the Wireless Shaoling Ma analyzes diplomatic diaries, early science fiction, feminist poetry, photography, telegrams, and other archival texts, and shows how writers, intellectuals, reformers, and revolutionaries theorized what media does despite lacking a vocabulary to do so. Media defines the dynamics between technologies and their social or cultural forms, between devices or communicative processes and their representations in texts and images. More than simply reexamining late Qing China's political upheavals and modernizing energies through the lens of media, Ma shows that a new culture of mediation was helping to shape the very distinctions between politics, gender dynamics, economics, and science and technology. Ma contends that mediation lies not only at the heart of Chinese media history but of media history writ large.
