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Love and Other Technologies - Retrofitting Eros for the Information Age (Paperback)
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Love and Other Technologies - Retrofitting Eros for the Information Age (Paperback)
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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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