French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn
French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn
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Author(s): Chalmers, Madeleine
ISBN No.: 9781399539814
Pages: 248
Year: 202412
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 158.70
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available (Forthcoming)

French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn traces a genealogy of thinking and writing about technology, which takes us from the French avant-gardes to the contemporary 'nonhuman turn' in Anglo-American theory via the Surrealists, Gilbert Simondon, and Gilles Deleuze. Tracking the unruly transition from Catholic vocabularies of grace, potentiality, and actuality to the modern and contemporary secular lexicon of agency, virtuality, and affect, this book explores technology as a source of subject matter and conceptual metaphors, but also probes how ideas and words are modes of technicity through which we shape and reshape the world. Fusing literature, philosophy, and theology, it offers readers new contexts - and questions - for the egalitarian ontological commitments of contemporary post- and nonhuman thinking.


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