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Feed-Forward: On the Future of Twenty-First-Century Media
Mark B. N. Hansen
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Description for Feed-Forward: On the Future of Twenty-First-Century Media
Paperback. Even as media in myriad forms increasingly saturate our lives, we nonetheless tend to describe our relationship to it in terms from the twentieth century: we are consumers of media, choosing to engage with it. The author shows that media is no longer separate from us but has become an inescapable part of our very experience of the world. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 3JM; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 230 x 17. Weight in Grams: 458.
Even as media in myriad forms increasingly saturate our lives, we nonetheless tend to describe our relationship to it in terms from the twentieth century: we are consumers of media, choosing to engage with it. In Feed-Forward, Mark B. N. Hansen shows just how outmoded that way of thinking is: media is no longer separate from us but has become an inescapable part of our very experience of the world. Engaging deeply with the speculative empiricism of philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, Hansen reveals how new media call into play elements of sensibility that deeply affect human selfhood without in any ... Read more
Even as media in myriad forms increasingly saturate our lives, we nonetheless tend to describe our relationship to it in terms from the twentieth century: we are consumers of media, choosing to engage with it. In Feed-Forward, Mark B. N. Hansen shows just how outmoded that way of thinking is: media is no longer separate from us but has become an inescapable part of our very experience of the world. Engaging deeply with the speculative empiricism of philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, Hansen reveals how new media call into play elements of sensibility that deeply affect human selfhood without in any ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226199726
SKU
V9780226199726
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About Mark B. N. Hansen
Mark B. N. Hansen is professor of literature and media arts and sciences at Duke University, coeditor of Critical Terms for Media Studies, and the author of three books, including Bodies in Code: Interfaces with New Media.
Reviews for Feed-Forward: On the Future of Twenty-First-Century Media
"Feed-Forward is an ambitious and remarkably exciting take on contemporary media read through Alfred North Whitehead's philosophy. Hansen builds an extremely inspiring study that is rich with implications for philosophers, media theorists, and anyone wanting to understand the microtemporal basis of contemporary culture. Feed-Forward opens up a range of fresh ideas." (Jussi Parikka, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton)" ... Read more