Necromedia

Kaavio näyttää kunkin havaintopäivän alimman tallennetun tuotehinnan. Havaintojen välistä hintaa ei ole vahvistettu.

Alin havaittu

29,60 €

Korkein havaittu

29,60 €

Viimeisin historian havainto

29.10.2026

Tuotetiedot

In Necromedia, media activist Marcel O’Gorman takes aim at “the collusion of death and technology,” drawing on a broad arsenal that ranges from posthumanist philosophy and social psychology to digital art and handmade “objects-to-think-with.” Throughout, O’Gorman mixes philosophical speculation with artistic creation, personal memoir, and existential dread. He is not so much arguing against technoculture as documenting a struggle to embrace the technical essence of human being without permitting technology worshippers to have the last word on what it means to be human. Inspired in part by the work of cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker, O’Gorman begins by suggesting that technology provides human beings with a cultural hero system built on the denial of death and a false promise of immortality. This theory adds an existential zest to the book, allowing the author not only to devise a creative diagnosis of what Bernard Stiegler has called the malaise of contemporary technoculture but

Brändi

university of minnesota press

EAN / GTIN

9780816695713