TY  - BOOK
AB  - "Critics of contemporary culture have argued that critical theory must keep pace with technological change and, in the process, have instituted a theoretical model that restricts consideration of technology's impact on human experience to those dimensions that can be captured in language. In this wide-ranging critical study of poststructuralism's legacy to contemporary cultural studies, Mark Hansen challenges the hegemony of this model, contending that technologies fundamentally alter our sensory experience and drastically affect what it means to live as embodied human agents.
AB  - Embodying Technesis examines how technological changes have rendered obsolete notions of technology as machine and as text. Voicing a sustained plea for rethinking the technological, Hansen argues that radical technological changes--from the steam engine to the internet and virtual reality--have fundamentally altered conditions of perception and, in so doing, changed the prevailing structures of modern experience. By emphasizing the dynamic interaction between technologies and bodies, between the diffuse effects of technological shifts and the collective embodied experiences of contemporary agents, Hansen opens the path for a radical revision of our understanding of the technological."--pub. desc.
AU  - Hansen, Mark B. N.
CN  - T14
CY  - Ann Arbor :
DA  - ©2000.
ID  - 1380508
KW  - Technology
KW  - Technology
KW  - Technology
KW  - 50.12 philosopy of technology.
KW  - 10.10 multidisciplinary fields of interest in the humanities.
KW  - Technology
KW  - Technology
KW  - Technologie.
KW  - Filosofische aspecten.
KW  - Belichaming.
KW  - Automaten.
LK  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/umich051/99050879.html
N2  - "Critics of contemporary culture have argued that critical theory must keep pace with technological change and, in the process, have instituted a theoretical model that restricts consideration of technology's impact on human experience to those dimensions that can be captured in language. In this wide-ranging critical study of poststructuralism's legacy to contemporary cultural studies, Mark Hansen challenges the hegemony of this model, contending that technologies fundamentally alter our sensory experience and drastically affect what it means to live as embodied human agents.
N2  - Embodying Technesis examines how technological changes have rendered obsolete notions of technology as machine and as text. Voicing a sustained plea for rethinking the technological, Hansen argues that radical technological changes--from the steam engine to the internet and virtual reality--have fundamentally altered conditions of perception and, in so doing, changed the prevailing structures of modern experience. By emphasizing the dynamic interaction between technologies and bodies, between the diffuse effects of technological shifts and the collective embodied experiences of contemporary agents, Hansen opens the path for a radical revision of our understanding of the technological."--pub. desc.
PB  - University of Michigan Press,
PP  - Ann Arbor :
PY  - ©2000.
SN  - 0472096621
SN  - 9780472096626
SN  - 0472066625
SN  - 9780472066629
T1  - Embodying technesis :technology beyond writing /
TI  - Embodying technesis :technology beyond writing /
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/umich051/99050879.html
ER  -