Design, Mediation, and the Posthuman (Hardcover)

Though the progress of technology continually pushes life towards virtual existence, the last decade has witnessed a renewed focus on materiality. Radical Interface: Transdisciplinary Interventions on Design, Mediation, and the Posthuman bears witness to literary theorists', digital humanists', rhetoricians', philosophers', and designers' attention to the crafted environment, the manner in which artifacts mediate human relations, and the constitution of a world in which the boundary between humans and things has seemingly imploded. The essays reflect on questions about the extent to which we ought to view humans and nonhuman artifacts as having equal capacity for agency and life, and the ways in which technological mediation challenges the central tenets of humanism and anthropocentrism. 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. Radical Interface thus brings diverse disciplines together to foster a dialog on significant technological issues pertinent to philosophy, rhetoric, aesthetics, and science.

General

Imprint:	Lexington Books
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Postphenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology
Release date:	August 2014
First published:	August 2014
Editors:	Dennis M Weiss • Amy D Propen • Colbey Emmerson Reid
Contributors:	Kristie S. Fleckenstein • Brendan Keogh • Jonathan Rey Lee • Matthew A Levy • Emily McArthur • Josh Mehler • Nicole M Merola
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	326
ISBN-13:	978-0-7391-9177-4
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Industrial / commercial art & design > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > General Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Semantics (meaning) > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics
LSN:	0-7391-9177-2
Barcode:	9780739191774

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