Our bodies In Expertise (Quantity 5) (Digital Mediations)
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An unique exploration of the methods our on-line world impacts human expertise.
New applied sciences counsel new concepts about embodiment: our “attain” extends to international websites by means of the Web; we enter our on-line world by means of the engines of digital actuality. On this ebook, a number one thinker of expertise explores the that means of our bodies in technology-how the sense of our our bodies and of our orientation on the planet is affected by the assorted data applied sciences.
Our bodies in Expertise begins with an evaluation of embodiment in our on-line world, then strikes on to contemplate methods through which social theorists have interpreted or missed these situations. An astute and wise choose of those theories, Don Ihde is a uniquely provocative and useful information by means of modern eager about expertise and embodiment, drawing on sources and examples as varied as video video games, common movies, the workings of e-mail, and digital actuality strategies.
Charting the historic, philosophical, and sensible territory between digital actuality and actual life, this work is a crucial contribution to the nationwide dialog on the influence technology-and data expertise in particular-has on our lives in a wired, international age.
Writer : Univ Of Minnesota Press; First Version (December 6, 2001)
Language : English
Paperback : 180 pages
ISBN-10 : 0816638462
ISBN-13 : 978-0816638468
Merchandise Weight : 8.8 ounces
Dimensions : 5.88 x 0.6 x 9 inches
Terence P. Mcnulty –
Plasticity and Polymorhpism!
Working off phenomenological and soci-cultural defintions of embodiment (borrowed largely from Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and Foucault), Don Ihde’s central task in Bodies in Technology seems to be to argue that even our most foundational bodily technological acts (everything from the Virtual Reality we may typically imagine to the simpler act of holding a gun) redefine our worldliness as selves and as relations. Ihde works hard to posit a post-Cartesian space in which technologies allow the body to open itself to many definitions of identity – most simply, chat rooms engage (and maybe encourage!) multiple self identifications, but, more complexly, Ihde argues powerfully that we can not ignore that, when I am holding a gun, our relationship (that’s you, reader, and me) is not the same as when I am not holding a gun.And this is all great. As I (admittedly a novice in the Philosophies of Science and Technology!) read this book, new worlds and ideas were constantly opened to me, and generally I would say – what more can one ask of a book? So I agree with nothing Ihde has to say about semiotics — it’s still a space to think, reflect – to learn.But as I finished the book, I was left feeling that it never really cohered – each individual essay holds, but the book ultimately feels rushed – not thrown together – but without an overarching force of unity. And as much as I’d love to attribute that to the “plasticity and polymorphism” of identity for which Ihde so potently argues , in the end I think the disunities of the text (and I grant that it’s a collection of essays!) betray the quality of thinking it posits and fosters.