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Hardback. New. In Necromedia, media activist Marcel O'Gorman takes aim at "the collusion of death and technology," drawing on a broad arsenal that ranges from posthumanist philosophy and social psychology to digital art and handmade "objects-to-think-with." Throughout, O'Gorman mixes philosophical speculation with artistic creation, personal memoir, and existential dread. He is not so much arguing against technoculture as documenting a struggle to embrace the technical essence of human being without permitting technology worshippers to have the last word on what it means to be human. Inspired in part by the work of cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker, O'Gorman begins by suggesting that technology provides human beings with a cultural hero system built on the denial of death and a false promise of immortality. This theory adds an existential zest to the book, allowing the author not only to devise a creative diagnosis of what Bernard Stiegler has…
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- Title Necromedia: Volume 33
- Author Marcel O'Gorman
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Minnesota Press
- Date 2015
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780816695706 / 0816695709
- Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 1.5 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 3.81 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Mass media - Philosophy
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014025342
- Dewey Decimal Code 302.23
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