Machine Sensation
Anthropomorphism and 'Natural' Interaction with Nonhumans
Published on 27. June 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
298 pages
978-1-78542-082-5 (ISBN)
Description
Emphasising the alien qualities of anthropomorphic technologies, Machine Sensation makes a conscious effort to increase rather than decrease the tension between nonhuman and human experience. In a series of rigorously executed cases studies, including natural user interfaces, artificial intelligence as well as sex robots, Leach shows how object-oriented ontology enables one to insist upon the unhuman nature of technology while acknowledging its immense power and significance in human life. Machine Sensation meticulously engages OOO, Actor Network Theory, the philosophy of technology, cybernetics and posthumanism in innovative and gripping ways.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
435 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78542-082-5 (9781785420825)
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Tessa Leach completed her PhD in history & philosophy of technology at The University of Melbourne. Her work exists at an intersection of metaphysics, the history and philosophy of technology, science and technology studies, videogames studies, gender studies, queer STS, and animal ethology.