Love and Other Technologies : Retrofitting Eros for the Information Age.

Intro -- Title Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface: A New Kind of Love -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Love and Other Technologies -- Chapter 2: The Storable Future and the Stored Past -- Chapter 3: In the Artificial Gardens of Eden-Olympia -- Chapter 4: Facing the Interface -- Chapter 5: ''How Was It For Me?'' Not-Seeing the Non-Spaces of Pornography -- Chapter 6: A Self of One's Own? -- Chapter 7: Mind the Gap -- Chapter 8: Asymptotic Encounters: Love Freed from Itself -- Conclusion: Of Mice and Multitudes -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.

Can love really be considered another form of technology? Dominic Pettman says it canGalthough not before carefully redefining technology as a cultural challenge to what we mean by the GhumanG 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 GtechtonicG movements of contemporary culture, specifically in relation to the language of eros. Highly ritualized expressions of desire Glove, in other wordsGalways reveal an eraGs 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 plurality of identity, a process that becomes increasingly complex as the forms of mediated communication, from cell phones and text messaging to the mass media, multiply and mesh together.

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