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Invocational Media
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Author : Chris Chesher
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2023-10-19
Invocational Media written by Chris Chesher and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-19 with Computers categories.
Invocational Media critiques the sociotechnical power of digital technologies by introducing the concept of invocational media. What is an invocation? Ask your voice assistant and it will define it for you. It is a media artefact that responds to many invocations such as seeking the weather forecast, requesting any song you can name, or turning on the lights, almost magically. This contemporary manifestation of the ancient practice of invocation gives an immediate response to your call in a way that Chris Chesher argues is the characteristic power of all computers, which he redefines as invocational media. This book challenges the foundations of computer science by offering invocation as a powerful new way of conceptualising digital technologies. Drawing on media philosophy, Deleuze, Guattari, Heidegger, Latour, Austin, Innis and McLuhan, it critiques the representationalism of data processing, artificial intelligence and virtual reality. Invocational media seem to empower individuals, but necessarily subject users to corporate and government monopolies of invocation. They offer many 'solutions', but only by reducing everything to the same kind of act. They complicate agency in their indifference as to whether invokers are human or non-human. With robotics they invoke material form to act physically and autonomously. People willingly make themselves invocable to surveillance and control by creating their own profiles and marking themselves with biometrics. This ground-breaking book will change how you think about digital media by showing they are, in fact, invocational media.
Invocational Media
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Author : Chris Chesher
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2023-10-19
Invocational Media written by Chris Chesher and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-19 with Computers categories.
Invocational Media critiques the sociotechnical power of digital technologies by introducing the concept of invocational media. What is an invocation? Ask your voice assistant and it will define it for you. It is a media artefact that responds to many invocations such as seeking the weather forecast, requesting any song you can name, or turning on the lights, almost magically. This contemporary manifestation of the ancient practice of invocation gives an immediate response to your call in a way that Chris Chesher argues is the characteristic power of all computers, which he redefines as invocational media. This book challenges the foundations of computer science by offering invocation as a powerful new way of conceptualising digital technologies. Drawing on media philosophy, Deleuze, Guattari, Heidegger, Latour, Austin, Innis and McLuhan, it critiques the representationalism of data processing, artificial intelligence and virtual reality. Invocational media seem to empower individuals, but necessarily subject users to corporate and government monopolies of invocation. They offer many 'solutions', but only by reducing everything to the same kind of act. They complicate agency in their indifference as to whether invokers are human or non-human. With robotics they invoke material form to act physically and autonomously. People willingly make themselves invocable to surveillance and control by creating their own profiles and marking themselves with biometrics. This ground-breaking book will change how you think about digital media by showing they are, in fact, invocational media.
Invocational Media
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Author : Chris Chesher
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023
Invocational Media written by Chris Chesher and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Computer programming categories.
"This book critiques the sociotechnical power of digital technologies by introducing the concept of invocational media"--
Computers As Invocational Media
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Author : Christopher Bradford Chesher
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Computers As Invocational Media written by Christopher Bradford Chesher and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Computers categories.
Media International Australia
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Media International Australia written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Australia categories.
Interface Fantasy
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Author : Andre Nusselder
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2009-09-11
Interface Fantasy written by Andre Nusselder and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-11 with Philosophy categories.
Behind our computer screens we are all cyborgs: through fantasy we can understand our involvement in virtual worlds. Cyberspace is first and foremost a mental space. Therefore we need to take a psychological approach to understand our experiences in it. In Interface Fantasy, André Nusselder uses the core psychoanalytic notion of fantasy to examine our relationship to computers and digital technology. Lacanian psychoanalysis considers fantasy to be an indispensable “screen” for our interaction with the outside world; Nusselder argues that, at the mental level, computer screens and other human-computer interfaces incorporate this function of fantasy: they mediate the real and the virtual. Interface Fantasy illuminates our attachment to new media: why we love our devices; why we are fascinated by the images on their screens; and how it is possible that virtual images can provide physical pleasure. Nusselder puts such phenomena as avatars, role playing, cybersex, computer psychotherapy, and Internet addiction in the context of established psychoanalytic theory. The virtual identities we assume in virtual worlds, exemplified best by avatars consisting of both realistic and symbolic self-representations, illustrate the three orders that Lacan uses to analyze human reality: the imaginary, the symbolic, and the real. Nusselder analyzes our most intimate involvement with information technology—the almost invisible, affective aspects of technology that have the greatest impact on our lives. Interface Fantasy lays the foundation for a new way of thinking that acknowledges the pivotal role of the screen in the current world of information. And it gives an intelligible overview of basic Lacanian principles (including fantasy, language, the virtual, the real, embodiment, and enjoyment) that shows their enormous relevance for understanding the current state of media technology.
Shaping Technologies
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Autonomedia
Release Date : 2003
Shaping Technologies written by and has been published by Autonomedia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Art categories.
It Undertakes Re-Readings Of The Past Debates, And Anticipations Of The Future Ones, To Arrive At Assessments That Suggest Soberiety And A Cool Consideration Of The Cold Touch Of The Machine, As Well As The Heat Of The Fuel That Animates It. It Examines Blueprints And Reads The Road Maps To The Future That Lie Before Us.
Subalterns And International Law
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Author : Remi Bachand
language : en
Publisher:
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Subalterns And International Law written by Remi Bachand and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with International law categories.
Invocational Media critiques the sociotechnical power of digital technologies by introducing the concept of invocational media. What is an invocation? Ask your voice assistant and it will define it for you. It is a media artefact that responds to many invocations such as seeking the weather forecast, requesting any song you can name, or turning on the lights, almost magically. This contemporary manifestation of the ancient practice of invocation gives an immediate response to your call in a way that Chris Chesher argues is the characteristic power of all computers, which he redefines as invocational media. This book challenges the foundations of computer science by offering invocation as a powerful new way of conceptualising digital technologies. Drawing on media philosophy, Deleuze, Guattari, Heidegger, Latour, Austin, Innis and McLuhan, it critiques the representationalism of data processing, artificial intelligence and virtual reality. Invocational media seem to empower individuals, but necessarily subject users to corporate and government monopolies of invocation. They offer many 'solutions', but only by reducing everything to the same kind of act. They complicate agency in their indifference as to whether invokers are human or non-human. With robotics they invoke material form to act physically and autonomously. People willingly make themselves invocable to surveillance and control by creating their own profiles and marking themselves with biometrics. This ground-breaking book will change how you think about digital media by showing they are, in fact, invocational media.
Educational Media In Vocational And Technical Education
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Author : Calvin J. Cotrell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1967
Educational Media In Vocational And Technical Education written by Calvin J. Cotrell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with Computer-assisted instruction categories.
Virtual Politics
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Author : David Holmes
language : en
Publisher: SAGE Publications Limited
Release Date : 1997
Virtual Politics written by David Holmes and has been published by SAGE Publications Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Political Science categories.
Virtual Politics is a critical overview of the new - digital - body politic, with new technologies framing the discussion of key themes in social theory. This book shows how these new technologies are altering the nature of identity and agency, the relation of self to other, and the structure of community and political representation.