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Humanesis : Sound and Technological Posthumanism

Humanesis critically examines central strains of posthumanism, searching out biases in the ways that human-technology coupling is explained and interrogating three approaches taken by posthumanist discourse: scientific, humanist, and organismic. David Cecchetto's investigations reveal how each...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cecchetto, David (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Posthumanism(s); PART I; 1. From Genes to Memes: Ollivier Dyens and the Scientific Posthumanism of Darwinian Evolution; 2. Dark Matters: An Eidolic Collision of Sound and Vision; PART II; 3. N. Katherine Hayles and Humanist Technological Posthumanism; 4. The Trace: Melancholy and Posthuman Ethics; PART III; 5. From Affect to Affectivity: Mark B.N. Hansen's Organismic Posthumanism; 6. Skewed Remote Musical Performance: Sounding Deconstruction.
  • Conclusion. Registration as Intervention: Performativity and Dominant Strains of Technological PosthumanismNotes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z.