Even as media in myriad forms increasingly saturate our lives, we
nonetheless tend to describe our relationship to it in terms from the
twentieth century: we are consumers of media, choosing to engage with
it. In Feed-Forward, Mark B. N. Hansen shows just how outmoded that
way of thinking is: media is no longer separate from us but has become
an inescapable part of our very experience of the world. Drawing on
the speculative empiricism of philosopher Alfred North Whitehead,
Hansen reveals how new media call into play elements of sensibility
that greatly affect human selfhood without in any way belonging to
the human. From social media to data-mining to new sensor
technologies, media in the twenty-first century work largely outside
the realm of perceptual consciousness, yet at the same time inflect
our every sensation. Understanding that paradox, Hansen shows, offers
us a chance to put forward a radically new vision of human becoming,
one that enables us to reground the human in a non-anthropocentric
view of the world and our experience in it.
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On the Future of Twenty-First-Century Media
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ISBN
9780226199863
Publisert
2018
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University of Chicago Press
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Product language
Engelsk
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Digital bok
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