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Marcel O´gorman - Necromedia - 9780816695706 - V9780816695706
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Necromedia

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Description for Necromedia Hardback. Series: Posthumanities. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2. BIC Classification: JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.

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 ... Read more


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Product Details

Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
Posthumanities
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816695706
SKU
V9780816695706
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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 ... Read more

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