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OverviewThe new boundaries between bodies and technologies constitute one of the most important developments in the last fifty years. Through technologies we not only change the relations between a natural given, the body, and a human-made artefact -- the technology but also change the ways we experience the world. How close are we to a world in which the abilities of machines are indistinguishable from those of the species that invented them?Our encounters with the new technologies change the cognitive processes and influences the modes of processing information. Moreover, it raises the question of the nature of human beings. Traversing body as emotive- being- in- the world and body as location culturally and socially constructed, there is a third dimension: the dimension of technological. Are we able to use these new dimension as a creative interface between the emotional brain, the acting body, and ICTS?In answering these questions, the book explores the action of bodies in technology, that is, how the sense of our bodies and of our orientation in the world are affected by information and communication technologies. It contributes therefore to the world-wide discussion and debates on the impact of technology, especially information technology, on the lives of human beings in the age of globalization, in particular to the present thinking of the relationship between technology and embodiment. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ivan Varga , Ivan VargaPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing Imprint: Cambridge Scholars Publishing Edition: Unabridged edition Weight: 0.535kg ISBN: 9781847184993ISBN 10: 1847184995 Pages: 300 Publication Date: 23 May 2008 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , 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 ContentsReviews'This book offers a much welcome critical and nuanced account of the recent advances in one of the most important fields of social research: the relationships between the human body and the new technologies. It analyses an impressive breadth of issues in a quite refreshing and creative way. Recent findings have shown that the evolution of our species has been much more complicated than most scholars still think. Moreover, the recent developments in technology have exerted a deep influence on the human body and its use as well as on the consciousness of having a body. In this fascinating book Bianca Maria Pirani outlines a real anthropology of the future: a future that has already begun. She shows how biology and technology tend to merge in human bodies and dwells upon the surprising consequences of this process, especially as for the technologies that are already integrated into everyday social life. This is a must-read for anyone who seeks a deeper understanding of this emerging process, still hardly explored by both biologists and sociologists.' - Umberto Melotti, Schweizerische Akademie fur Entwicklung (SAD), Biel/Bienne, and Istituto di Studi e Indagini Sociologiche (ISIS), Societa Umanitaria, Milan Author InformationBianca Maria Pirani is Professor of Sociology of Cultural and Communicative Processes at the Faculty of Sociology of University of Roma La Sapienza and President of the Working Group 3 The Body in the Social Sciences of International Sociological Association. She is also Member of the Editorial Board of SSIS [ISA Sage Studies in International Sociology].She has published widely on the ever increasing insights into the relations between human bodies and technologies by analyzing, within the mind/body debate, the action-space as composed and re-composed by individuals and collectivities.Her works in English language include the CS monograph issue Bodily Order. Mind, Emotion and Social Memory (edited by Bianca Maria Pirani & Ivan Varga, Vol.53, n. 2, monograph 1, March 2005) Ivan Varga is Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada and Honorary President of Research Committee 22 (Sociology of Religion) of International Association. He is also member of the Editorial Board of International Sociology. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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