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Dorsality: Thinking Back through Technology and Politics
David Wills
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Description for Dorsality: Thinking Back through Technology and Politics
Paperback. Series: Posthumanities. Num Pages: 280 pages, 8 b&w photos. BIC Classification: JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 228 x 22. Weight in Grams: 384.
In this highly original book David Wills rethinks not only our nature before all technology but also what we understand to be technology. Rather than considering the human being as something natural that then develops technology, Wills argues, we should instead imagine an originary imbrication of nature and machine that begins with a dorsal turn-a turn that takes place behind our back, outside our field of vision. With subtle and insightful readings, Wills pursues this sense of what lies behind our idea of the human by rescuing Heidegger's thinking from a ... Read more
In this highly original book David Wills rethinks not only our nature before all technology but also what we understand to be technology. Rather than considering the human being as something natural that then develops technology, Wills argues, we should instead imagine an originary imbrication of nature and machine that begins with a dorsal turn-a turn that takes place behind our back, outside our field of vision. With subtle and insightful readings, Wills pursues this sense of what lies behind our idea of the human by rescuing Heidegger's thinking from a ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
Posthumanities
Condition
New
Weight
384g
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816653461
SKU
V9780816653461
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