{"product_id":"love-and-other-technologies-retrofitting-eros-for-the-information-age-paperback","title":"Love and Other Technologies: Retrofitting Eros for the Information Age - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDominic Pettman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCan love really be considered another form of technology? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDominic Pettman says it can--although not before carefully redefining technology as a cultural challenge to what we mean by the human in 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 techtonic movements of contemporary culture, specifically in relation to the language of eros. Highly ritualized expressions of desire--love, in other words--always reveal an era's attitude toward what it means to exist as a self among others. For Pettman, the articulation of love is a technique of belonging: a way of responding to the basic plurality of everyone's identity, a process that becomes increasingly complex as the forms of mediated communication, from cell phone and text messaging to the mass media, multiply and mesh together. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWresting the idea of love from the arthritic hands of Romanticism, Pettman demonstrates the ways in which this dynamic assemblage--the stirrings of the soul--have always been a matter of tools, devices, prosthetics, and media. Love is, after all, something we make. And, love, this book argues, is not eternal, but external.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDominic Pettman\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor in Culture and Media at the Eugene Lang College of the New School. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eAfter the Orgy: Toward a Politics of Exhaustion\u003c\/em\u003e (SUNY, 2002), \u003cem\u003eAvoiding the Subject: Media, Culture and the Object \u003c\/em\u003e(with Justin Clemens; Amsterdam University Press, 2005); and \u003cem\u003eLove and Other Technologies: Retrofitting Eros for the Information Age \u003c\/em\u003e(Fordham, 2006).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.68 x 9 x 6.34 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 15, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757875691808,"sku":"9780823226696","price":73.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/b2ff2358625ab316c9bfa297aa0d1447.webp?v=1780113770","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/love-and-other-technologies-retrofitting-eros-for-the-information-age-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}