Bruno Latour: Aramis, or The Love of Technology (1993/1996)
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Bruno Latour has written a unique and wonderful tale of a technological dream gone wrong. As the young engineer and professor follow Aramis’ trail–conducting interviews, analyzing documents, assessing the evidence–perspectives keep shifting: the truth is revealed as multilayered, unascertainable, comprising an array of possibilities worthy of Rashomon. The reader is eventually led to see the project from the point of view of Aramis, and along the way gains insight into the relationship between human beings and their technological creations. This charming and profound book, part novel and part sociological study, is Latour at his thought-provoking best.
Translated by Catherine Porter
Published by Harvard University Press
April 1996
ISBN 0674043227, 9780674043220
336 pages
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Pierre Bourdieu: On Television (1996–) [French, English]
Filed under book | Tags: · journalism, mass media, politics, television
On Television exposes the invisible mechanisms of manipulation and censorship that determine what appears on the small screen. Bourdieu shows how the ratings game has transformed journalism — and hence politics — and even such seemingly removed fields as law, science, art, and philosophy. Bourdieu had long been concerned with the role of television in cultural and political life when he bypassed the political and commercial control of the television networks and addressed his country’s viewers from the television station of the College de France. On Television, which expands on that lecture, not only describes the limiting and distorting effect of television on journalism and the world of ideas, but offers the blueprint for a counterattack.
Publisher Liber-Raisons d’Agir, Paris, 1996
95 pages
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Publisher New Press, 1998
Translated by Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson
ISBN 1565844076
104 pages
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Simon Cooper: Technoculture and Critical Theory: In the Service of the Machine? (2002)
Filed under book | Tags: · critical theory, cultural studies, culture, internet, politics, technoculture, technology, virtual reality
The author explores the work of major thinkers and cultural movements that have grappled with the complex relationship between technology, politics and culture. Subjects such as the Internet, cloning, warfare, fascism and Virtual Reality are placed within a broad theoretical context which explores how humanity might, through technology, establish a more ethical relationship with the world.
Examining the philosophy of writers such as Heidegger, Benjamin, Lyotard, Virilio, and Zizek, and cultural movements such as Italian Futurism, this book marks a timely intervention in critical theory debates. The broad scope of the book will be of vital interest to those in the fields of philosophy, critical theory, cultural studies, politics and communications.
Publisher Routledge, 2002
ISBN 0415261600, 9780415261609
182 pages
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