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Ever since TIME magazine’s 1983 ‘Man of the Year’ was the PC,
we have been led to believe that our domestic spaces have been
colonized by digital technology. Too little attention has been paid
to the domestic spaces and inhabitants impacted by this, and
critical posthumanism has been captured by a picture of humanity
overly indebted to digital technologies and their largely male
progenitors. By applying feminist theory to posthumanism, this work
recovers the plethora of sophisticated human-technology mediations
associated with the home and practiced primarily by women, the
elderly, infants, the disabled and across cultures globally,
challenging dominant, contemporary visions of a future humanity.
Authors Dennis M. Weiss and Colbey Emmerson Reid look at various
iterations of the posthuman and assert the need for alternative,
feminist readings that emphasize different standpoints from which
to assess people, places, and products. Chapters address the impact
of posthumanism on design theory and look at familiar domestic
objects, with different attributes from those typically affiliated
with technology and the future, such as clothing, textiles,
ceramics, furniture and wallpaper. They reveal their unhomely,
extra-human qualities and offer a much-needed perspective on
domestic spaces and practices, revivifying the home as a site of
species transformation and pushing beyond traditional
understandings of person, mothering, families and care-giving to
highlight a range of critically-overlooked mediated materialisms
and embodiments affiliated with domestic space. By focusing on the
neglected intersection of the posthuman with the home and exploring
domestic posthuman design, Designing the Domestic Posthuman offers
a vision of a future humanity that retains identity, integrity and
considers our relationship to others, to the world and things in
it. This book widens the lens of critical focus in posthumanism,
feminist philosophy and design and presents an alternative,
inclusive design framework for the future.
Though the progress of technology continually pushes life toward
virtual existence, the last decade has witnessed a renewed focus on
materiality. Design, Mediation, and the Posthuman bears witness to
the attention paid by literary theorists, digital humanists,
rhetoricians, philosophers, and designers 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 chapters 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. Thus, this collection
brings diverse disciplines together to foster a dialogue on
significant technological issues pertinent to philosophy, rhetoric,
aesthetics, and science.
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.
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