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OverviewCan love really be considered another form of technology? Dominic Pettman says it can-although not before carefully redefining technology as a cultural challenge to what we mean by the ""human"" in the information age. Using the writings of such important thinkers as Giorgio Agamben, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Bernard Stiegler as a springboard, Pettman explores the ""techtonic"" movements of contemporary culture, specifically in relation to the language of eros. Highly ritualized expressions of desire-love, in other words-always reveal an era's attitude toward what it means to exist as a self among others. For Pettman, the articulation of love is a technique of belonging: a way of responding to the basic plurality of everyone's identity, a process that becomes increasingly complex as the forms of mediated communication, from cell phone and text messaging to the mass media, multiply and mesh together. Wresting the idea of love from the arthritic hands of Romanticism, Pettman demonstrates the ways in which this dynamic assemblage-""the stirrings of the soul""-have always been a matter of tools, devices, prosthetics, and media. Love is, after all, something we make. And, love, this book argues, is not eternal, but external. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Dominic PettmanPublisher: Fordham University Press Imprint: Fordham University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.522kg ISBN: 9780823226689ISBN 10: 0823226689 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 15 December 2006 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsThe ultimate handbook on love for the over-educated. - McKenzie Wark, author of A Hacker Manifesto A free-form sprint across strata of cultures. - James Morrison, author of Passport to Hollywood Author InformationDominic Pettman is University Professor of Media and New Humanities at the New School. His publications include Creaturely Love, Sonic Intimacy, Peak Libido, and, with Eugene Thacker, Sad Planets. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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