Feed-Forward: On the Future of Twenty-First-Century Media - Couverture souple

Hansen, Mark B. N.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 022619972X ISBN 13 : 9780226199726

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2015

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Even as media in myriad forms increasingly saturate our lives, we nonetheless tend to describe our relationship to it in terms from the twentieth century: we are consumers of media, choosing to engage with it. In Feed-Forward, Mark B. N. Hansen shows just how outmoded that way of thinking is: media is no longer separate from us but has become an inescapable part of our very experience of the world.

Drawing on the speculative empiricism of philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, Hansen reveals how new media call into play elements of sensibility that greatly affect human selfhood without in any way belonging to the human. From social media to data-mining to new sensor technologies, media in the twenty-first century work largely outside the realm of perceptual consciousness, yet at the same time inflect our every sensation. Understanding that paradox, Hansen shows, offers us a chance to put forward a radically new vision of human becoming, one that enables us to reground the human in a non-anthropocentric view of the world and our experience in it.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 022619972X
• ISBN 13: 9780226199726
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320