Technoculture and Critical Theory: In the Service of the Machine?

ISBN-13: 9780415753555 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 192 str.

Simon Cooper

Opis

This volume theorizes the ambivalence most of us register towards technological progress. The author explores the work of major thinkers and cultural movements that have grappled with the complex relationship between technology, politics and culture.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: In the Service of the Machine? 2. Beyond Enframing: Heideffer and the Question concerning Technology 3. Walter Benjamin and Technology: Social Form and the Recovery of Aura 4. Futurism and the Politics of a Technological Being in the World 5. Between Totalitarianism and Heterogeneity: Lyotard and the Postmodern Condition 6. Paul Virilio: Overcoming Inertia? 7. Psychoanalysis Ysis,, Cyberspace and its Discontents: Turkle, Zizek, Brennan 8. Conclusion

O autorze

Simon Cooper is an editor of Arena journal, and teaches in Communications at Monash University