Mobile Media Technologies and Poiēsis: Rediscovering How We Use Technology to Cultivate Meaning in a Nihilistic World

ISBN-13: 9783319597966 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 167 str.

Justin Michael Battin

Opis

This book intertwines phenomenological fieldwork with a wide range of Heidegger's writings to explore how our everyday uses of mobile media technologies permit a unique avenue to rediscover poiesis, our creative cultivation that is simultaneously a bringing forth, a revealing.

Recenzje

"This book is a good recommendation for those looking into mobile technology in relation to creative abilities." (Rustie Anglin, CBQ Communication Booknotes Quarterly, Vol. 51 (1-2), January-June, 2019)

Spis treści

1. Introduction

2. Situating Heidegger for the Study of Mobile Media Technology Use

3. This Technology is a Part of Me

4. The Immaterial as Traversable

5. Our Relationship to the Technological Self

6. The Saving Power of marginal Practices

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Justin Michael Battin is Assistant Professor of English Cultures and Literatures at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. His research interests include media anthropology, the philosophy of technology, and Heidegger’s phenomenology, all of which have culminated to provide the foundation for this book.