Embodying technesis : technology beyond writing / Mark Hansen.
2000
T14 .H287 2000 (Mapit)
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Embodying technesis : technology beyond writing / Mark Hansen.
ISBN
0472096621 (alk. paper)
9780472096626 (alk. paper)
0472066625 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780472066629 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780472096626 (alk. paper)
0472066625 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780472066629 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
Imprint
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2000.
Language
English
Description
ix, 338 pages ; 23 cm.
Call Number
T14 .H287 2000
Summary
"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.
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.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-321) and index.
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Studies in literature and science.
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Table of Contents
Technoculture and embodiment
Locating the technological real
From metaphor to embodiment: resisting technesis
Questionging the machine basis of techne: Heidegger on technology
The mechanics of deconstruction: Derrida on de Man, or poststructuralism in an age of cultural studies
Technology an external experience: reconsidering Freud's Project of a scientific psychology
Technology beyond thought, or How real is the Lacanian real?
Ontological revolution at what cost? Ambivalence in Deleuze and Guattari's Capitalism and schizophrenia
On some motifs in Benjamin: (re)embodying technology as Erlebnis, or the postlinguistic afterlife of mimesis.
Locating the technological real
From metaphor to embodiment: resisting technesis
Questionging the machine basis of techne: Heidegger on technology
The mechanics of deconstruction: Derrida on de Man, or poststructuralism in an age of cultural studies
Technology an external experience: reconsidering Freud's Project of a scientific psychology
Technology beyond thought, or How real is the Lacanian real?
Ontological revolution at what cost? Ambivalence in Deleuze and Guattari's Capitalism and schizophrenia
On some motifs in Benjamin: (re)embodying technology as Erlebnis, or the postlinguistic afterlife of mimesis.