This project periodizes contemporary culture in reference to changes in technology and media over the past several decades, emphasizing their importance as structuring forces in contemporary social life and global political economy. It has become increasingly difficult to ignore the ways that the centrality of new media and technologies from the global networking of information systems and social media to new possibilities for altering human genetics seem to surpass or outright make obsolete our traditional ways of thinking about ethics and persuasive communication inherited from earlier...

It has become increasingly difficult to ignore the ways that the centrality of new media and technologies from the global networking of information systems and social media to new possibilities for altering human genetics seem to make obsolete our traditional ways of thinking about ethics and persuasive communication inherited from earlier humanist paradigms. This book argues that rather than devoting our critical energies towards critiquing humanist touchstones, we should instead examine the ways in which media and technologies have always worked as crucial cultural forces in shaping...