Rotman Becoming Beside Ourselves

The Alphabet, Ghosts, and Distributed Human Being
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8911-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 216 Seiten

Theoretical study of the relationship between technoscience and the human body that examines the ways in which bodies and machines "speak" not just through language but also through gesture, numbers, and other non-alphabetic systems of expressio

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rotman, Brian

Weitere Mitwirkende

Lenoir, Timothy

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Naturwissenschaften, Technik, Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword: Machine Bodies, Ghosts, and Para-Selves: Confronting the Singularity with Brian Rotman / Timothy Lenoir ix

Preface xxxi

Acknowledgments xxxv

Aura xxxvii

Introduction: Lettered Selves and Beyond 1

Part I

1. The Alphabetic Body 13

2. Gesture and Non-Alphabetic Writing 33

Interlude

3. Technological Mathematics 57

Part II

4. Parallel Selves 81

5. Ghost Effects 107

Notes 139

References 151

Index 163

Über Autor(innen)

Brian Rotman is Distinguished Humanities Professor in the Department of Comparative Studies at Ohio State University. He is the author of several books, including Mathematics as Sign: Writing, Imagining, Counting; Ad Infinitum.The Ghost in Turing’s Machine: Taking God out of Mathematics and Putting the Body Back In; and Signifying Nothing: the Semiotics of Zero. Rotman has a doctorate in mathematics. Timothy Lenoir is the Kimberly J. Jenkins Chair of New Technologies and Society at Duke University.