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Product Description: What exactly is the human element separating humans from animals and machines? The common answers that immediately come to mind—like art, empathy, or technology—fall 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 “human error” may be the ingrained impulse to understand ourselves primarily in contrast to our other worldly companions...read more
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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?

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9780816672998 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, April 15, 2011, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: What exactly is the human element separating humans from animals and machines?

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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 "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...read more
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9780823226689 | Fordham Univ Pr, November 15, 2006, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Can love really be considered another form of technology?

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9780823226696 | Fordham Univ Pr, November 15, 2006, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Can love really be considered another form of technology?

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Product Description: What can Roger Rabbit tell us about the Second Gulf War? What can a woman married to the Berlin Wall tell us about posthumanism and inter-subjectivity? What can DJ Shadow tell us about the end of history? What can our local bus route tell us about the fortification of the West? What can Reality TV tell us about the crisis of contemporary community? And what can unauthorized pictures of Osama Bin Laden tell us about new methods of popular propaganda? These are only some of the thought-provoking questions raised in Avoiding the Subject, which highlights the feedback-loops between philosophy, technology, and politics in today's mediascape...read more
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9789053567166 | Amsterdam Univ Pr, February 15, 2005, cover price $40.50 | About this edition: What can Roger Rabbit tell us about the Second Gulf War?

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Product Description: Explores the post-Enlightenment obsession with apocalyptic endings. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780791453957 | State Univ of New York Pr, July 1, 2002, cover price $59.50 | About this edition: Explores the post-Enlightenment obsession with apocalyptic endings.

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9780791453964 | State Univ of New York Pr, July 1, 2002, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Explores the post-Enlightenment obsession with apocalyptic endings.

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