ISBN:
9780816679638
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (222 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Posthumanities
Parallel Title:
Print version Humanesis : Sound and Technological Posthumanism
DDC:
303.48/3
Keywords:
Technology Philosophy
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Technology Social aspects
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Humanism History
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20th century
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Electronic books
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Linguistic minorities -- Education -- French-speaking countries
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Sociolinguistics -- French-speaking countries
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Language and education
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Multicultural education
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Linguistic minorities -- Education -- Canada
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Humanism ; History ; 20th century
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Technology ; Philosophy
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Technology ; Social aspects
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Sociolinguistics ; French-speaking countries..
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Language and education..
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Multicultural education..
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Linguistic minorities ; Education ; Canada
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Linguistic minorities ; Education ; French-speaking countries..
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Online-Publikation
Abstract:
Humanesis critically examines central strains of posthumanism, searching out biases in the ways that human-technology coupling is explained and interrogating three approaches taken by posthumanist discourse: scientific, humanist, and organismic. David Cecchetto's investigations reveal how each perspective continues to hold on to elements of the humanist tradition that it is ostensibly mobilized against
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Posthumanism(s); PART I; 1. From Genes to Memes: Ollivier Dyens and the Scientific Posthumanism of Darwinian Evolution; 2. Dark Matters: An Eidolic Collision of Sound and Vision; PART II; 3. N. Katherine Hayles and Humanist Technological Posthumanism; 4. The Trace: Melancholy and Posthuman Ethics; PART III; 5. From Affect to Affectivity: Mark B. N. Hansen's Organismic Posthumanism; 6. Skewed Remote Musical Performance: Sounding Deconstruction
Description / Table of Contents:
Conclusion. Registration as Intervention: Performativity and Dominant Strains of Technological PosthumanismNotes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z
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