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Description for Necromedia
Paperback. Series: Posthumanities. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2. BIC Classification: KNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 165 x 16. Weight in Grams: 312.
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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...
Product Details
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Posthumanities
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816695713
SKU
V9780816695713
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About Marcel O´gorman
Marcel O’Gorman is associate professor of English at the University of Waterloo and director of the Critical Media Lab. He is the author of E-Crit: Digital Media, Critical Theory, and the Humanities.
Reviews for Necromedia
"He provides a credible account of the unavoidability of death presence even in an over-technological existence."—Aurelio Cianciotta, Neural "Necromedia is very readable and not too long in length, it delivers a serious if disturbing message about our thanatophobic culture, in a strangely beguiling manner. O’Gorman is not afraid to mix theory with quite personal material and has the skill as...
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