Rethinking Technologies
Verena Conley(Editor)
University of Minnesota Press
Published on 19. January 1994
Book
Hardback
264 pages
978-0-8166-2214-6 (ISBN)
Description
Rethinking Technologies was first published in 1993.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."Rethinking Technologies constitutes a significant contribution to the analysis of techno-cultures today. It will definitely contradict those who still think that postmodernity is merely a fashionable term or an empty fad." -SubStance"Rarely has a book done as much of what its title promises as this book. Not only were the authors "re-thinking technologies" but I found myself being challenged to think in ways in which I had not considered before. As such this book offers a unique and stimulating, if at times difficult to understand, re-think regarding technology, especially for western thinkers. Definitely a must for those engaged in the critical study of technology and society from philosophical, psycbological, literary and discourse analysis perspectives." -PrometheusContributors: Teresa Brennan, Patrick Clancy, Verena Andermatt Conley, Scott Durham, Thierry de Duve, Francoise Gaillard, Felix Guattari, N. Katherine Hayles, Alberto Moreiras, Jean-Luc Nancy, Avital Ronell, Ingrid Scheibler, Paul Virilio.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Minnesota
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8166-2214-6 (9780816622146)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Verena Andermatt Conley is a visiting professor of comparative literature at Harvard University.
Content
Part 1 Questioning technologies: The third interval - a critical transition, Paul Virilio; Machinic heterogenisis, Felix Guattari; War, law, sovereignty techne, Jean-Luc Nancy; Our narcotic modernity, Avital Ronell. Part 2 Technology and the environment: Eco-subjects, Verena Andermatt Conley; Age of paranoia, Teresa Brennan; Heidegger and the rhetoric of submission - technology and passivity, Ingrid Scheibler. Part 3 Technology and the arts: Models of the technosubject - on cinema by Dan Graham, Thierry de Duve; Technical performance (postmodernism - angst or agony of modernism?), Francoise Gaillard; The technology of death and its limits - the problem of the simulation model, Scott Durham. Part 5 Technology and cyberspace: The seductions of cyberspace, N. Katherine Hayles; The leap and the lapse - hacking a private site in cyberspace, Alberto Moreiras; Telefigures and cyberspace, Patrick Clancy.