{"product_id":"human-error-species-being-and-media-machines-paperback-softback-9780816672998","title":"Human Error; Species-Being and Media Machines (Paperback \/ softback) 9780816672998","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eHuman Error\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSpecies-Being and Media Machines\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDominic Pettman (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780816672998\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 April 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e360 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is a powerful account of human exceptionalism, narrated with the most enchanting of attentiveness to the texts being read. Dominic Pettman writes with such subtlety, wit, and imagination that every page of this book is a pleasure to think with.\" -Rey Chow, Duke University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Reading this book is a seductively creaturely experience. Pettman combines impressive theoretical sophistication and pitch-perfect pop-cultural readings with a lightness of touch that pulls us in many unexpected directions and elicits many surprising feelings. A major contribution that maps a way past the all-too-human errors of the posthuman.\" -Hugh Raffles, author of \u003ci\u003eInsectopedia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eWhat 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. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eHuman Error\u003c\/i\u003e, Pettman describes the three sides of the cybernetic triangle-human, animal, and machine-as a rubric for understanding key figures, texts, and sites where our species-being is either reinforced or challenged by our relationship to our own narcissistic technologies. Consequently, species-being has become a matter of \u003ci\u003especious\u003c\/i\u003e-being, in which the idea of humanity is not only a case of mistaken identity but indeed the mistake of identity. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHuman Error\u003c\/i\u003e boldly insists on the necessity of relinquishing our anthropomorphism but also on the extreme difficulty of doing so, given how deeply this attitude is bound with all our other most cherished beliefs about forms of life.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: The Human Element\u003cbr\u003e 1. Bear Life: Tracing an Opening in \u003ci\u003eGrizzly Man\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2. Zooicide: Animal Love and Human Justice\u003cbr\u003e 3. After the Beep: Answering Machines and Creaturely Life\u003cbr\u003e 4. The War on Terra: From Political Economy to Libidinal Ecology\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Human Remains\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Filmography\/Videography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52570078970136,"sku":"9780816672998","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/human-error-species-being-and-media-machines-paperback-softback-9780816672998","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}