Description: Further DetailsTitle: On the Mode of Existence of Technical ObjectsCondition: NewISBN-10: 1517904870EAN: 9781517904876ISBN: 9781517904876Publisher: University of Minnesota PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 04/18/2017Description: Few thinkers have been as influential upon current discussions and theoretical practices in the age of media archaeology, philosophy of technology, and digital humanities as the French thinker Gilbert Simondon. Simondon’s prolific intellectual curiosity led his philosophical and scientific reflections to traverse a variety of areas of research, including philosophy, psychology, the beginnings of cybernetics, and the foundations of religion. For Simondon, the human/machine distinction is perhaps not a simple dichotomy. There is much we can learn from our technical objects, and while it has been said that humans have an alienating rapport with technical objects, Simondon takes up the task of a true thinker who sees the potential for humanity to uncover life-affirming modes of technical objects whereby we can discover potentiality for novel, healthful, and dis-alienating rapports with them. For Simondon, by way of studying its genesis, one must grant to the technical object the same ontological status as that of the aesthetic object or even a living being. His work thus opens up exciting new entry points into studying the human’s rapport with its continually changing technical reality. This first complete English-language translation of Gilbert Simondon’s groundbreaking and influential work finally presents to Anglophone readers one of the pinnacle works of France’s most unique thinkers of technics.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 171mmItem Width: 38mmAuthor: Gilbert SimondonTranslator: John Rogove, Cecile MalaspinaContributor: John Rogove (Translated by), Cecile Malaspina (Translated by)Genre: Philosophy & SpiritualityBook Series: UnivocalTopic: Science Nature & MathRelease Year: 2017 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects
Title: On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects
ISBN-10: 1517904870
EAN: 9781517904876
ISBN: 9781517904876
Release Date: 04/18/2017
Release Year: 2017
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Translator: Cecile Malaspina
Contributor: Cecile Malaspina (Translated by)
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Topic: Science Nature & Math
Number of Pages: 310 Pages
Publication Name: On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects
Language: English
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Item Height: 1.5 in
Publication Year: 2017
Subject: Philosophy & Social Aspects, Social Aspects, General
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 17.8 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Philosophy, Technology & Engineering, Science
Author: Gilbert. Simondon
Item Width: 6.8 in
Series: Univocal Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
