Inhuman Networks

Author : Grant Bollmer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501316176
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inhuman Networks written by Grant Bollmer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-08-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social media's connectivity is often thought to be a manifestation of human nature buried until now, revealed only through the diverse technologies of the participatory internet. Rather than embrace this view, Inhuman Networks: Social Media and the Archaeology of Connection argues that the human nature revealed by social media imagines network technology and data as models for behavior online. Covering a wide range of historical and interdisciplinary subjects, Grant Bollmer examines the emergence of “the network” as a model for relation in the 1700s and 1800s and follows it through marginal, often forgotten articulations of technology, biology, economics, and the social. From this history, Bollmer examines contemporary controversies surrounding social media, extending out to the influence of network models on issues of critical theory, politics, popular science, and neoliberalism. By moving through the past and present of network media, Inhuman Networks demonstrates how contemporary network culture unintentionally repeats debates over the limits of Western modernity to provide an idealized future where “the human” is interchangeable with abstract, flowing data connected through well-managed, distributed networks.

Author : Grant Bollmer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 : 9781501340178
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inhuman Networks written by Grant Bollmer and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social media's connectivity is often thought to be a manifestation of human nature buried until now, revealed only through the diverse technologies of the participatory internet. Rather than embrace this view, Inhuman Networks: Social Media and the Archaeology of Connection argues that the human nature revealed by social media imagines network technology and data as models for behavior online. Covering a wide range of historical and interdisciplinary subjects, Grant Bollmer examines the emergence of “the network” as a model for relation in the 1700s and 1800s and follows it through marginal, often forgotten articulations of technology, biology, economics, and the social. From this history, Bollmer examines contemporary controversies surrounding social media, extending out to the influence of network models on issues of critical theory, politics, popular science, and neoliberalism. By moving through the past and present of network media, Inhuman Networks demonstrates how contemporary network culture unintentionally repeats debates over the limits of Western modernity to provide an idealized future where “the human” is interchangeable with abstract, flowing data connected through well-managed, distributed networks.

Author : M. R. Redclift
Publisher : Taylor & Francis US
ISBN 13 : 9780415340380
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sustainability: Post-sustainability written by M. R. Redclift and published by Taylor & Francis US. This book was released on 2005-09-22 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This four-volume set introduces the reader to 'sustainability' as a concept, a contested idea and a political goal, and brings together a range of articles and published papers that have influenced the course of thinking in social science.

Author : Tero Karppi
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452959749
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Undoing Networks written by Tero Karppi and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring and conceptualizing practices, technologies, and politics of disconnecting How do we think beyond the dominant images and imaginaries of connectivity? Undoing Networks enables a different connectivity: “digital detox” is a luxury for stressed urbanites wishing to lead a mindful life. Self-help books advocate “digital minimalism” to recover authentic experiences of the offline. Artists envision a world without the internet. Activists mobilize against the expansion of the 5G network. If connectivity brought us virtual communities, information superhighways, and participatory culture, disconnection comes with privacy tools, Faraday shields, and figures of the shy. This book explores nonusage and the “right to disconnect” from work and from the excessive demands of digital capitalism.

Author : Edward King
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135016917X
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twins and Recursion in Digital, Literary and Visual Cultures written by Edward King and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-04-07 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tale of twins being reunited after a long separation is a trope that has been endlessly repeated and reworked across different cultures and throughout history, with each moment adapting the twin plot to address its current cultural tensions. In this study, Edward King demonstrates how twins are a means of exploring the social implications of hyper-connectivity and the compromising relationship between humans and digital information, their environment and their genetics. As King demonstrates, twins tell us about the changing forms of connectivity and power in contemporary culture and what new conceptions of the human they present us with. Taking account of a broad range of literary, cultural and scientific practices, Entwined Being probes discussions surrounding twins such as: - The way in which they appear in behavioral genetics as a way of identifying inherited predispositions to social media - How their faces interrupt biometric interfaces such as facial recognition software and undermine advances in neo-liberal surveillance systems - How they represent the uncanny and the weird in the horror genre and how this questions ideologies of communications media and the connectivity it enables - Their association with telepathy and cybernetics in science fiction - Their construction as models for entangled being in ecological thought Drawing upon the literary and filmic works of Ken Follet, Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Bruce Chatwin, Shelley Jackson, Brian de Palma, Peter Greenway and David Cronenberg, as well as science fiction literature and the television series Orphan Black, King illuminates how twins are employed across a range of disciplines to envision a critical re-conception of the human in times of digital integration and ecological crisis.

Author : Frank Webster
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415319270
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Information Society Reader written by Frank Webster and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulling together contributions to the information society debate from some of the field's key figures, this book addresses and examines key topics, providing an invaluable resource for students and academics alike.

Author : Grant Bollmer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501316168
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inhuman Networks written by Grant Bollmer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-08-11 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social media's connectivity is often thought to be a manifestation of human nature buried until now, revealed only through the diverse technologies of the participatory internet. Rather than embrace this view, Inhuman Networks: Social Media and the Archaeology of Connection argues that the human nature revealed by social media imagines network technology and data as models for behavior online. Covering a wide range of historical and interdisciplinary subjects, Grant Bollmer examines the emergence of “the network” as a model for relation in the 1700s and 1800s and follows it through marginal, often forgotten articulations of technology, biology, economics, and the social. From this history, Bollmer examines contemporary controversies surrounding social media, extending out to the influence of network models on issues of critical theory, politics, popular science, and neoliberalism. By moving through the past and present of network media, Inhuman Networks demonstrates how contemporary network culture unintentionally repeats debates over the limits of Western modernity to provide an idealized future where “the human” is interchangeable with abstract, flowing data connected through well-managed, distributed networks.

Author : Joel Evans
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108497012
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conceptualising the Global in the Wake of the Postmodern written by Joel Evans and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identifies a return to figurations of the totality in contemporary literature, theory and culture.

Author : William Paulson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501729349
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literary Culture in a World Transformed written by William Paulson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary studies are in danger of being left behind in the twenty-first century. Print culture risks becoming a thing of the past in the multimedia age; meanwhile, human life and society are undergoing rapid changes as a result of new technologies, the intensification of global capitalism, and the effects of human actions on the environment.In this transformed world, William Paulson argues for a radical renewal of literary studies. Modern literary culture has defined itself, in opposition to science, politics, and commerce, as a protected sphere of democratic and free inquiry, but today that autonomy may lead to isolation from the real dynamics of cultural and global change. Paulson clearly and convincingly demonstrates the need for literary studies to embrace both the unfashionable literary past and the technologically saturated future, and to train not a countersociety of cultural critics but citizens of the world who can communicate the irreducible strangeness and multiplicity of literature to a society on hyperdrive. His series of concrete proposals, ranging from a closer connection between literature and everyday language to the restructuring of undergraduate and graduate education, will immeasurably enrich current discussions of the humanities' role in the life of the world.

Author : Grant Bollmer
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452969817
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Affect Lab written by Grant Bollmer and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2023-09-29 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how our understanding of emotion is shaped by the devices we use to measure it Since the late nineteenth century, psychologists have used technological forms of media to measure and analyze emotion. In The Affect Lab, Grant Bollmer examines the use of measurement tools such as electrical shocks, photography, video, and the electroencephalograph to argue that research on emotions has confused the physiology of emotion with the tools that define its inscription. Bollmer shows that the psychological definitions of emotion have long been directly shaped by the physical qualities of the devices used in laboratory research. To investigate these devices, The Affect Lab examines four technologies related to the history of psychology in North America: spiritualist toys at Harvard University, serial photography in early American psychological laboratories, experiments on “psychopaths” performed with an instrument called an Offner Dynograph, and the development of the “electropsychometer,” or “E-Meter,” by Volney Mathison and L. Ron Hubbard. Challenging the large body of humanities research surrounding affect theory, The Affect Lab identifies an understudied problem in formulations of affect: how affect is a construction inseparable from the techniques and devices used to identify and measure it. Ultimately, Bollmer offers a new critique of affect and affect theory, demonstrating how deferrals to psychology and neuroscience in contemporary theory and philosophy neglect the material of experimental, scientific research. Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and/or extended descriptions.