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- TechnoLogics: Ghosts, the Incalculable, and the Suspension of Animation
- Book
- 2005
- Published by: State University of New York Press
- Series: SUNY series in Postmodern Culture
summary
Adding to the growing field of posthuman or cyborg studies, TechnoLogics explores how our position in the technologized world reorders, in the most radical ways imaginable, our basic experience of the lines governing literary, philosophical, and cultural production. The ancient dream of immortality is now becoming realized through cloning, genetic research, and artificial intelligence, bringing with it the need for new forms of both reading and living in the everyday world. In this emerging cyborg culture, what is to come for us is not predictable but, instead, an open possibility to be shaped by the work of, among others, artists, computer designers, scientists, and writers. Through encounters with Plato, Melville, Marx, Jünger, Heidegger, Freud, Derrida, Baudrillard, and others, Gray Kochhar-Lindgren identifies the causes, characteristics, and links between the most primordial of wishes—immortality—and the highest of high tech, and asks how, in our culture of technocapitalism, we can continue to listen to the faint call of ethics.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- p. ix
- Introduction
- pp. 1-10
- I. Laying Down the Power Grid
- 1. Call Forwarding
- pp. 13-19
- 2. On-(the)-Line
- pp. 21-39
- 3. The Platonic Teleport
- pp. 41-65
- II. Ghosts in the Machines
- 4. The Elixir of Life
- pp. 69-77
- 6. Bartleby the Incalculable
- pp. 93-119
- III. The Suspension of Animation
- 7. The Drone of Technocapitalism
- pp. 123-142
- 8. The Psychotelemetry of Surveillance
- pp. 143-169
- 9. Temps: Time, Work, and the Delay
- pp. 171-192
- Conclusion: Heeding the Phantomenological
- pp. 193-201
- Works Cited
- pp. 213-220
Additional Information
ISBN
9780791483985
DOI
MARC Record
OCLC
63161605
Pages
232
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No