
Design, Mediation, and the Posthuman
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Contemporary theories of human-object relations presage the arrival of the posthuman, which is no longer a futuristic or science-fictional concept but rather one descriptive of the present, and indeed, the past. Discussions of the posthuman already have a long history in fields like literary theory, rhetoric, and philosophy, and as advances in design and technology result in increasingly engaging artifacts that mediate more and more aspects of everyday life, it becomes necessary to engage in a systematic, interdisciplinary, critical examination of the intersection of the domains of design, technological mediation, and the posthuman. Thus, this collection brings diverse disciplines together to foster a dialogue on significant technological issues pertinent to philosophy, rhetoric, aesthetics, and science.
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Amy Propen is lecturer of rhetoric and composition in the Writing Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Colbey Emmerson Reid is director of the Consumer Innovation Consortium in the Poole College of Management at North Carolina State University.
Content
Part One: Interface
Introduction
Chapter One: Posthuman Topologies: Thinking Through the Hoard, Anthony Miccoli
Chapter Two: The Rhetorical Work of the GPS: Geographic Knowledge-Making and the Technologically-Mediated Body, Amy D. Propen
Chapter Three: Neo-Baroque Computing: Interface and the Subject-Object Divide, Elise Takehana
Chapter Four: Techno-Geographic Interfaces: Layers of Text and Agency in Mobile Augmented Reality, John Tinnell
Part Two: Artifact
Introduction
Chapter Five: The Plastic Art of LEGO: An Essay into Material Culture, Jonathan Rey Lee
Chapter Six: The iPhone Erfahrung: Siri, the Auditory Unconscious, and Walter Benjamin's "Aura", Emily McArthur
Chapter Seven: Victorian Cybernetics: Networking Technology, Disability and Interior Design, Colbey Emmerson Reid
Chapter Eight: Extending "Extension": A Reappraisal of the Technology-as-Extension Idea through the Case of Self-Tracking Techno
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