Human Error : Species-Being and Media Machines /

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What exactly is the human element separating humans from animals and machines? The common answers that immediately come to mind--like art, empathy, or technology--fall apart under close inspection. Dominic Pettman argues that it is a mistake to define such rigid distinctions in the first place, and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pettman, Dominic
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Technology > Philosophy.
Philosophical anthropology.
Animals (Philosophy)
PHILOSOPHY > General.
PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Humanism.
philosophical anthropology.
Technologie > Philosophie.
Animaux (Philosophie)
Anthropologie philosophique.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the human element
  • Bear life : tracing an opening in Grizzly Man
  • Zooicide : animal love and human justice
  • After the beep : answering machines and creaturely life
  • The war on terra : from political economy to libidinal ecology
  • Conclusion : human remains.

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