search for books and compare prices
Dominic Pettman has written 6 work(s)
Search for other authors with the same name
displaying 1 to 6 |
at end
show results in order: alphabetically | oldest to newest | newest to oldest
Hardcover:
9781509502264 | Polity Pr, December 7, 2015, cover price $49.95
Paperback:
9781509502271 | Polity Pr, November 16, 2015, cover price $12.95
Product Description: Are totems merely a thing of the distant past? Or might it be that our sleek new machines are producing totemic forces which we are only beginning to recognize? This book asks to what degree today's media technologies are haunted by a Freudian ghost, functioning as totems or taboos (or both)...read more
Paperback:
9781780991399 | Reprint edition (Zero Books, March 16, 2013), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Are totems merely a thing of the distant past?
Product Description: What exactly is the human element separating humans from animals and machines? The common answers that immediately come to mindâlike art, empathy, or technologyâfall apart under close inspection. Dominic Pettman argues that it is a mistake to define such rigid distinctions in the first place, and the most decisive âhuman errorâ may be the ingrained impulse to understand ourselves primarily in contrast to our other worldly companions...read more
Hardcover:
9780816672981 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, April 15, 2011, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: What exactly is the human element separating humans from animals and machines?
Paperback:
9780816672998 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, April 15, 2011, cover price $25.00
Product Description: Can love really be considered another form of technology?Dominic Pettman says it can-although not before carefully redefining technology as a cultural challenge to what we mean by the humanin the information age. Using the writings of such important thinkers as Giorgio Agamben, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Bernard Stiegler as a springboard, Pettman explores the techtonicmovements of contemporary culture, specifically in relation to the language of eros...read more
Hardcover:
9780823226689 | Fordham Univ Pr, November 15, 2006, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: Can love really be considered another form of technology?
Paperback:
9780823226696 | Fordham Univ Pr, November 15, 2006, cover price $35.00
Paperback:
9789053567166 | Amsterdam Univ Pr, February 15, 2005, cover price $44.95
Product Description: Applying Jean Baudrillard's question "What are you doing after the orgy?" to the postmillennial climate that informs our contemporary cultural moment, this book argues that the imagination of apocalyptic endings has been an obsessive theme in post-Enlightenment culture...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
Hardcover:
9780791453957 | State Univ of New York Pr, July 1, 2002, cover price $59.50 | About this edition: Applying Jean Baudrillard's question "What are you doing after the orgy?
Paperback:
9780791453964 | State Univ of New York Pr, July 1, 2002, cover price $31.95
displaying 1 to 6 |
at end