Exceptional technologies : a continental philosophy of technology /: a continental philosophy of technology. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Dominic Smith.
• Authors: Smith, Dominic
• Contents: List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Picturing Technology1. Picturing Technology Today2. Key Terms3. Structure and LimitsChapter One: A Sense of the Transcendental1. Malabou's Sense2. Expanding Sense3. Expanding Further: From Minimal to Maximal Sense4. Philosophy of Technology: Making Sense of Many TurnsChapter Two: The Blank Page1. 'This White Paper'2. Varying Conditions3. Re-Imagining Relevance (1)4. Re-Imagining Relevance (2)Chapter Three: Embodiment Conditions1. On the Internet2. A Developing Body of Work3. Situating Embodiment Conditions: 4e4. Crossover Potentials: Between Philosophy of Technology, Media Theory and 4eChapter Four: Three Exceptional Technologies1. Everything but the Network: Vannevar Bush's Memex2. 'Pictorial Statistics': Francis Galton's Composite Photography3. 'Machine with Concrete': Arthur Ganson's Gestural Engineering4. Problems and ProspectsChapter Five: Which Way to Turn?1. The Empirical Turn: An Enduring Influence in Philosophy of Technology?2. The Speculative Turn: A New Beginning in Continental Philosophy?3. An Alternative Picture: Method as 'Mapping'4. A Shared Field of Exceptional ComplexitiesConclusion: Exceptional Technologies, Not Technological ExceptionalismNotesReferencesIndex.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 601; Technology -- Philosophy; Continental philosophy
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781350015623; 9781350015593
• Related ISBNs: 9781350015609; 9781350015616
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