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Exceptional Technologies : a Continental Philosophy of Technology /

"A discussion of the rapidly growing field, from a thinker at the forefront of research at the interface of technology and the humanities, this is a must-read for anyone interested in contemporary developments in Continental philosophy and philosophy of technology. Philosophy of technology regu...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Smith, Dominic (Lecturer in philosophy) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London, UK : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Picturing technology; 1 Picturing technology today; 2 Key terms; 3 Structure and limits; Chapter 1 A sense of the transcendental; 1 Malabou's sense; 2 Expanding sense; 3 Expanding further: From minimal to maximal sense; 4 Philosophy of technology: Making sense of many turns; Chapter 2 The blank page; 1 'This white paper'; 2 Varying conditions; 3 Re-imagining relevance (1); 4 Re-imagining relevance (2); Chapter 3 Embodiment conditions; 1 On the Internet; 2 A developing body of work.
  • 3 Situating embodiment conditions: 4e4 Crossover potentials: Between philosophy of technology, media theory and 4e; Chapter 4 Three exceptional technologies; 1 Everything but the network: Vannevar Bush's Memex; 2 'Pictorial statistics': Francis Galton's composite photography; 3 'Machine with concrete': Arthur Ganson's gestural engineering; 4 Problems and prospects; Chapter 5 Which way to turn?; 1 The empirical turn: An enduring influence in philosophy of technology?; 2 The speculative turn: A new beginning in continental philosophy?; 3 An alternative picture: Method as 'Mapping'