Deleuze and New Technology

by David Savat (Editor), Mark Poster (Editor)

Overview

Explores how Deleuze's philosophy can help us to understand our digital and biotechnological futuresIn a world where our lives are increasingly mediated by technologies, we need to pay more attention to Deleuze's often explicit focus on our reliance on the machine and the technological. These essays are a collective and determined effort to explore the usefulness Deleuze in thinking about our present and future reliance on technology. At the same time, they take seriously a style of thinking that negotiates between philosophy, science and art.ContributorsWilliam Bogard, Abigail Bray, Ian Buchanan, Verena Conley, Ian Cook, Tauel Harper, Timothy Murray, Saul Newman, Luciana Parisi, Patricia Pisters, Mark Poster, Horst Ruthrof, David Savat, Bent Meier Sørensen and Eugene Thacker.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780748633388
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Publication date:	06/25/2009
Series:	Deleuze Connections
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

David Savat is Chair of Communication Studies at the University of Western Australia Mark Poster is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine

Table of Contents

Introduction, David Savat; Control; 1. Deleuze and Machines: A Politics of Technology?, William Bogard; 2. Of Rhizomes, Smooth Space, War Machines and New Media, Verena Conley; 3. Deleuze's Objectile: From Discipline to Modulation, David Savat; 4. How to Surf: Technologies at Work in the Societies of Control. Bent Meier Sorensen; 5. Chemical-Control: From the Cane to the Pill, Abigail Bray; Becoming: 6. Politics in the Age of Control, Saul Newman; 7. Smash the Strata! A Program for Techno-Political Evolution, Tauel Harper; 8. Deleuze and the Internet, Ian Buchanan; 9. Swarming: Number vs. Animal?, Eugene Thacker; 10. The Body without Organs and Internet Gaming Addiction, Ian Cook; 11. Deleuze's Concept in the Information-Control Continuum, Horst Ruthrof; 12. Illusionary Perception and Cinema: Experimental Thoughts on Film Theory and Neuroscience, Patricia Pisters; 13. Surface Folds: The Archival Events of New Medialised Art, Tim Murray; Afterword, Mark Poster; Notes on Contributors; Index