Book ID: CBB157921290

Design, Mediation, and the Posthuman (2014)

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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.

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Description Features chapters by literary theorists, digital humanists, rhetoricians, philosophers, and designers who are thinking about the agency of human and non-human artifacts.


Reviewed By

Review Gavin Rae (2016) Review of "Design, Mediation, and the Posthuman". Technology and Culture (pp. 283-284). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Elise Takehana (2014) Neo-Baroque Computing: Interface and the Subject-Object Divide. In: Design, Mediation, and the Posthuman (pp. 41-68). unapi

Chapter Yoni Van Den Eede (2014) Extending “Extension”: A Reappraisal of the Technology-as-Extension Idea through the Case of Self-Tracking Technologies. In: Design, Mediation, and the Posthuman (pp. 151-172). unapi

Chapter Emily McArthur (2014) The iPhone Erfahrung: Siri, the Auditory Unconscious, and Walter Benjamin’s “Aura”. In: Design, Mediation, and the Posthuman (pp. 113-128). unapi

Chapter Jonathan Rey Lee (2014) The Plastic Art of LEGO: An Essay into Material Culture. In: Design, Mediation, and the Posthuman (pp. 95-112). unapi

Chapter Nicole Merola (2014) Mediating Anthropocene Planetary Attachments: Lars von Trier’s Melancholia. In: Design, Mediation, and the Posthuman (pp. 249-268). unapi

Chapter Matthew A. Levy (2014) Living Deliberately, Less or More: Affirmative Cynicism and Radical Design. In: Design, Mediation, and the Posthuman (pp. 197-216). unapi

Chapter Dennis M. Weiss (2014) Seduced by the Machine: Human-Technology Relations and Sociable Robots. In: Design, Mediation, and the Posthuman (pp. 217-233). unapi

Chapter Brendan Keogh (2014) “You really are you, right?”: Cybernetic Memory and the Construction of the Posthuman Self in Videogame Play. In: Design, Mediation, and the Posthuman (pp. 233-248). unapi

Chapter Colbey Emmerson Reid (2014) Victorian Cybernetics: Networking Technology, Disability and Interior Design. In: Design, Mediation, and the Posthuman (pp. 129-150). unapi

Chapter Anthony Miccoli (2014) Posthuman Topologies: Thinking Through the Hoard. In: Design, Mediation, and the Posthuman (pp. 5-22). unapi

Chapter Kristie Fleckenstein; Josh Mehler (2014) Mobility Regimes and the Constitution of the Nineteenth-Century Posthuman Body. In: Design, Mediation, and the Posthuman (pp. 177-196). unapi

Chapter John Tinnell (2014) Techno-Geographic Interfaces: Layers of Text and Agency in Mobile Augmented Reality. In: Design, Mediation, and the Posthuman (pp. 69-88). unapi

Chapter Amy D. Propen (2014) The Rhetorical Work of the GPS: Geographic Knowledge-Making and the Technologically-Mediated Body. In: Design, Mediation, and the Posthuman (pp. 23-40). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Wosk, Julie
Ari Daniel Levine
Wilhelm, Lindsay Puawehiwa
Larry Busbea
Fretwell, Erica
Hofmann, Martin
Concepts
Aesthetics
Design
Technology and society
Literary analysis
Popular culture
Communication
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
19th century
18th century
Early modern
20th century, late
Places
United States
Great Britain
Germany
Prague (Czechia)
Japan
France
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