Design, Mediation, and the Posthuman

Design, Mediation, and the Posthuman

Design, Mediation, and the Posthuman was written by Dennis M. Weiss, Amy D. Propen, and Colbey Emmerson Reid. The 336 page book was published by Lexington Books in 2014 with an ISBN 10 of 0739191780. Most books are now available in ebook, pdf and audible formats. If you need more information about this publication, it can be purchased at Amazon.com or Google Books. If the book is older and/or out of print book try to locate a copy on eBay.com. Design, Mediation, and the Posthuman mentions 1 serial killers including Paul Dennis Reid. The author Dennis M. Weiss has 1 book(s) listed on Killer.Cloud used for the purpose of documenting facts about Serial Killers listed in our database.

Book Summary

Though the progress of technology continually pushes life toward virtual existence, the last decade has witnessed a renewed focus on materiality. Design, Mediation, and the Posthuman bears witness to the attention paid by literary theorists, digital humanists, rhetoricians, philosophers, and designers to the crafted environment, the manner in which artifacts mediate human relations, and the constitution of a world in which the boundary between humans and things has seemingly imploded. The chapters reflect on questions about the extent to which we ought to view humans and nonhuman artifacts as having equal capacity for agency and life, and the ways in which technological mediation challenges the central tenets of humanism and anthropocentris...