Exceptional Technologies A Continental Philosophy of Technology
- New York Bloomsbury 2018
- 169p
includes index and biblioraphy
Picturing Technology..........1 Picturing technology Today .........1 Key terms .............5 Structure and Limits ................7 1. A sense of the Transcendental ...............11 Malabou`s Sense ............12 Expanding sense ..........16 Expanding further: From Minimal to Maximal Sense ..........23 Philosophy of Technology: Making Sense of Many Turns .........27 2. The blank page..........35 This white paper.........37 Varying conditions ..........42 Re-imagining relevance ................45 Re-Imagining relevance .................51 3. Embodiment conditions ................55 On the internet...........57 A developing body of work ...........62 Situating embodiment conditions : 4e ...............69 Crossover potentials: Between philosophy of Technology, Media theory and 4e ...........73 4. Three Exceptional Technologies ...........77 Everything but the network: Vannevar bush`s Memex .........79 Pictorial Statistics : Francis galton`s Composite photography .............86 Machine with concrete : Arthur Ganson`s Gestural engineering ..............97 Problems and Prospects ................104 5. Which way to Turn..............107 The empirical turn: An enduring influence in Philosophy of Technology ..............109 The speculative turn: A new beginning in Continental philosophy..........114 An alternative picture: Method as Mapping .....119 A shared field of Exceptional Complexities ..........124