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Love and Other Technologies - Retrofitting Eros for the Information Age (Hardcover, New)
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Love and Other Technologies - Retrofitting Eros for the Information Age (Hardcover, New)
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Can love really be considered another form of technology?Dominic
Pettman says it canaalthough 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 desirealove, in other
wordsaalways 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 assemblagea"the
stirrings of the soul"ahave 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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