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Necromedia (Hardcover)
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Necromedia (Hardcover)
Series: Posthumanities
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In Necromedia, media activist Marcel O'Gorman takes aim at "the
collusion of death and technology," drawing on a broad arsenal that
ranges from posthumanist philosophy and social psychology to
digital art and handmade "objects-to-think-with." Throughout,
O'Gorman mixes philosophical speculation with artistic creation,
personal memoir, and existential dread. He is not so much arguing
against technoculture as documenting a struggle to embrace the
technical essence of human being without permitting technology
worshippers to have the last word on what it means to be human.
Inspired in part by the work of cultural anthropologist Ernest
Becker, O'Gorman begins by suggesting that technology provides
human beings with a cultural hero system built on the denial of
death and a false promise of immortality. This theory adds an
existential zest to the book, allowing the author not only to
devise a creative diagnosis of what Bernard Stiegler has called the
malaise of contemporary technoculture but also to contribute a
potential therapy-one that requires embracing human finitude,
infusing care into the process of technological production, and
recognizing the vulnerability of all things, human and nonhuman.
With this goal in mind, Necromedia prescribes new research
practices in the humanities that involve both written work and the
creation of objects-to-think-with that are designed to infiltrate
and shape the technoculture that surrounds us.
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