Necromedia - Brossura

O'gorman, Marcel

 
9780816695713: Necromedia
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ISBN 10: 0816695717 ISBN 13: 9780816695713
Casa editrice: Univ of Minnesota Pr, 2015

Sinossi

In Necromedia, media activist Marcel O&;Gorman takes aim at &;the collusion of death and technology,&; drawing on a broad arsenal that ranges from posthumanist philosophy and social psychology to digital art and handmade &;objects-to-think-with.&; Throughout, O&;Gorman mixes philosophical speculation with artistic creation, personal memoir, and existential dread. He is not so much arguing against technoculture as documenting a struggle to embrace the technical essence of human being without permitting technology worshippers to have the last word on what it means to be human.



Inspired in part by the work of cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker, O&;Gorman begins by suggesting that technology provides human beings with a cultural hero system built on the denial of death and a false promise of immortality. This theory adds an existential zest to the book, allowing the author not only to devise a creative diagnosis of what Bernard Stiegler has called the malaise of contemporary technoculture but also to contribute a potential therapy&;one that requires embracing human finitude, infusing care into the process of technological production, and recognizing the vulnerability of all things, human and nonhuman. With this goal in mind, Necromedia prescribes new research practices in the humanities that involve both written work and the creation of objects-to-think-with that are designed to infiltrate and shape the technoculture that surrounds us.


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Informazioni sull?autore

Marcel O&;Gorman is associate professor of English at the University of Waterloo and director of the Critical Media Lab. He is the author of E-Crit: Digital Media, Critical Theory, and the Humanities.

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Editore
Univ of Minnesota Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2015
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0816695717
ISBN 13 
9780816695713
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
231
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
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ISBN 10:  0816695709 ISBN 13:  9780816695706
Casa editrice: Univ of Minnesota Pr, 2015
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