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Postphenomenological Investigations : Essays on Human-Technology Relations.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Postphenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology SeriesPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (283 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780739194379
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Postphenomenological InvestigationsDDC classification:
  • 142.7
LOC classification:
  • T14 .P576 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Section 1: A Postphenomenological Field Guide -- 1 A Field Guide to Postphenomenology -- Section 2: Postphenomenological Theories -- 2 Why Postphenomenology Needs a Metaphysics -- 3 What Robotic Re-embodiment Reveals about Virtual Re-embodiment -- 4 Thinking Technology with Merleau-Ponty -- 5 Movies and Bodies -- 6 Bodies as Technology -- 7 Four Dimensions of Technological Mediation -- Section 3: Postphenomenological Cases -- 8 Tracing the Tracker -- 9 A Century on Speed -- 10 Searching for Alterity -- 11 Postphenomenology of the Robot Medical Student -- 12 Mediating Multiplicity -- 13 Towards a Hermeneutics of Unveiling -- Section 4: Critical Interlocutors -- 14 Making the Gestalt Switch -- 15 Postphenomenology with an Eye to the Future -- 16 Stability, Instability, and Phenomenology -- Index -- About the Contributors.
Summary: This book provides an introduction to postphenomenology, an emerging school of thought in the philosophy of technology and science and technology studies, which addresses the relationships users develop with the devices they use. --Paul Durbin, University of Delaware "Centre for Medical Humanities".
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Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Section 1: A Postphenomenological Field Guide -- 1 A Field Guide to Postphenomenology -- Section 2: Postphenomenological Theories -- 2 Why Postphenomenology Needs a Metaphysics -- 3 What Robotic Re-embodiment Reveals about Virtual Re-embodiment -- 4 Thinking Technology with Merleau-Ponty -- 5 Movies and Bodies -- 6 Bodies as Technology -- 7 Four Dimensions of Technological Mediation -- Section 3: Postphenomenological Cases -- 8 Tracing the Tracker -- 9 A Century on Speed -- 10 Searching for Alterity -- 11 Postphenomenology of the Robot Medical Student -- 12 Mediating Multiplicity -- 13 Towards a Hermeneutics of Unveiling -- Section 4: Critical Interlocutors -- 14 Making the Gestalt Switch -- 15 Postphenomenology with an Eye to the Future -- 16 Stability, Instability, and Phenomenology -- Index -- About the Contributors.

This book provides an introduction to postphenomenology, an emerging school of thought in the philosophy of technology and science and technology studies, which addresses the relationships users develop with the devices they use. --Paul Durbin, University of Delaware "Centre for Medical Humanities".

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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