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Moved by Machines - Performance Metaphors and Philosophy of Technology (Paperback)
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Moved by Machines - Performance Metaphors and Philosophy of Technology (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
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Given the rapid development of new technologies such as smart
devices, robots, and artificial intelligence and their impact on
the lives of people and on society, it is important and urgent to
construct conceptual frameworks that help us to understand and
evaluate them. Benefiting from tendencies towards a performative
turn in the humanities and social sciences, drawing on thinking
about the performing arts, and responding to gaps in contemporary
artefact-oriented philosophy of technology, this book moves
thinking about technology forward by using performance as a
metaphor to understand and evaluate what we do with technology and
what technology does with us. Focusing on the themes of
knowledge/experience, agency, and power, and discussing some
pertinent ethical issues such as deception, the narrative of the
book moves through a number of performance practices: dance,
theatre, music, stage magic, and (perhaps surprisingly) philosophy.
These are used as sources for metaphors to think about
technology-in particular contemporary devices and machines-and as
interfaces to bring in various theories that are not usually
employed in philosophy of technology. The result is a sequence of
gestures and movements towards a performance-oriented conceptual
framework for a thinking about technology which, liberated from the
static, vision-centred, and dualistic metaphors offered by
traditional philosophy, can do more justice to the phenomenology of
our daily embodied, social, kinetic, temporal, and narrative
performances with technology, our technoperformances. This book
will appeal to scholars of philosophy of technology and performance
studies who are interested in reconceptualizing the roles and
impact of modern technology.
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