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Item Details
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LOVE AND OTHER TECHNOLOGIES
RETROFITTING EROS FOR THE INFORMATION AGE |
| By: |
Dominic Pettman |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£74.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0823226689 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780823226689 |
| Publisher: |
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
15 December, 2006 |
| Pages: |
256 |
| Description: |
Highly ritualized expressions of desire reveal an era's attitude toward what it means to exist as a self among others. Using the writings of such important thinkers as Giorgio Agamben, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Bernard Stiegler as a springboard, this book explores the "techtonic" movements of contemporary culture, in relation to the language of eros. |
| Synopsis: |
Can love really be considered another form of technology?Dominic Pettman says it can-although not before carefully redefining technology as a cultural challenge to what we mean by the "human" in the information age. Using the writings of such important thinkers as Giorgio Agamben, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Bernard Stiegler as a springboard, Pettman explores the "techtonic" movements of contemporary culture, specifically in relation to the language of eros. Highly ritualized expressions of desire-love, in other words-always reveal an era's attitude toward what it means to exist as a self among others. For Pettman, the articulation of love is a technique of belonging: a way of responding to the basic plurality of everyone's identity, a process that becomes increasingly complex as the forms of mediated communication, from cell phone and text messaging to the mass media, multiply and mesh together.Wresting the idea of love from the arthritic hands of Romanticism, Pettman demonstrates the ways in which this dynamic assemblage-"the stirrings of the soul"-have always been a matter of tools, devices, prosthetics, and media. Love is, after all, something we make. And, love, this book argues, is not eternal, but external. |
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US |
| Imprint: |
Fordham University Press |
| Returns: |
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