Mark Coeckelbergh

Using Words and Things

Language and Philosophy of Technology

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a systematic framework for thinking about the relationship between language and technology and an argument for interweaving thinking about technology with thinking about language. Engaging with the work of Searle, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Ihde, Latour, and Ricoeur, the author constructs a synthesis of three extreme, untenable positions: only humans speak and neither language nor technologies speak; only language speaks and neither humans nor technologies speak; and only technology speaks and neither humans nor language speak. The construction of this synthesis goes hand in hand with a narrative about subjects and objects that become entangled and constitute one another.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 302mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9781138694163
• ISBN-10: 1138694169
• Artikelnr.: 48571426

Autorenporträt

Mark Coeckelbergh is Professor of Philosophy of Media and Technology at the Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna, and (part-time) Professor of Technology and Social Responsibility at De Montfort University, UK. His publications include Growing Moral Relations (2012), Human Being @ Risk (2013), Environmental Skill (2015), Money Machines (2015), New Romantic Cyborgs (2017), and numerous articles in the area of philosophy of technology.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Introduction: Words and Things
Part I: Humans Speak (Subjects versus Objects)
Chapter 2: Speaking with and about Technology
Chapter 3: Giving Meaning to Technology: A Searlean Social Ontology of
Technological Artefacts
Part II: Language Speaks (Subjects Change Objects)
Chapter 4: Language and the Social Construction of Artefacts
Chapter 5: All about Language: Postmodern Interpretations, or the Muting of
Humans and Technology
Part III: Technology Speaks (Objects Change Subjects)
Chapter 6: What Technology Tells Us (To Do) (Part 1): Media, Artefacts,
Networks
Chapter 7: What Technology Tells Us (To Do) (Part 2): Narrative
Technologies, or Interpreting and Materializing Ricoeur
Part IV: Humans, Language, and Technology Speak (Subjects and Objects
Entangled)
Chapter 8: Using and Performing with Words and Things

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Chapter 1: Introduction: Words and Things

Part I: Humans Speak (Subjects versus Objects)

Chapter 2: Speaking with and about Technology

Chapter 3: Giving Meaning to Technology: A Searlean Social Ontology of Technological Artefacts

Part II: Language Speaks (Subjects Change Objects)

Chapter 4: Language and the Social Construction of Artefacts

Chapter 5: All about Language: Postmodern Interpretations, or the Muting of Humans and Technology

Part III: Technology Speaks (Objects Change Subjects)

Chapter 6: What Technology Tells Us (To Do) (Part 1): Media, Artefacts, Networks

Chapter 7: What Technology Tells Us (To Do) (Part 2): Narrative Technologies, or Interpreting and Materializing Ricoeur

Part IV: Humans, Language, and Technology Speak (Subjects and Objects Entangled)

Chapter 8: Using and Performing with Words and Things

Rezensionen

"Coeckelbergh's book is an important and welcome study, especially for the way it critiques the dismissal or neglect of language in contemporary philosophy of technology, counters this omission by integrating such philosophy with the postmodern investigations of language, and thus sketches new possibilities for conceptualizing technology." - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

"Coeckelbergh's book is an important and welcome study, especially for the way it critiques the dismissal or neglect of language in contemporary philosophy of technology, counters this omission by integrating such philosophy with the postmodern investigations of language, and thus sketches new possibilities for conceptualizing technology." - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews