{"product_id":"necromedia-hardback-9780816695706","title":"Necromedia (Hardback) 9780816695706","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eNecromedia\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMarcel O'Gorman (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780816695706\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 April 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages, 20\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 3.8 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\n\u003cp\u003e\"He provides a credible account of the unavoidability of death presence even in an over-technological existence.\"-Aurelio Cianciotta, \u003ci\u003eNeural\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eNecromedia \u003c\/i\u003eis very readable and not too long in length, it delivers a serious if disturbing message about our thanatophobic culture, in a strangely beguiling manner. O’Gorman is not afraid to mix theory with quite personal material and has the skill as a writer to do so effectively.\"-\u003ci\u003eThe Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"He provides a credible account of the unavoidability of death presence even in an over-technological existence.\"-Aurelio Cianciotta, \u003ci\u003eNeural\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eNecromedia \u003c\/i\u003eis very readable and not too long in length, it delivers a serious if disturbing message about our thanatophobic culture, in a strangely beguiling manner. O’Gorman is not afraid to mix theory with quite personal material and has the skill as a writer to do so effectively.\"-\u003ci\u003eThe Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"What \u003ci\u003eNecromedia\u003c\/i\u003e offers, and this may reflect the author’s being an artist and practitioner as well as a theorist, is a sense of theory being used for genuine engagement in the world and with its problems, and possibilities.\"-\u003ci\u003eTechnology and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"An ideal book for posthumanism.\"-\u003ci\u003eConfigurations\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A powerful and deeply resonating argument in defense of an applied media theory founded in a techno-neopolitics of things, leaving the future open to ethically responsible reinvention. From dust to data, indeed.\"-\u003ci\u003eScience Fiction, Film, and Television\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eNecromedia,\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInspired 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 called the malaise of contemporary technoculture but also to contribute a potential therapy-one that requires embracing human finitude, infusing care into the process of technological production, and recognizing the vulnerability of all things, human and nonhuman. With this goal in mind, \u003ci\u003eNecromedia\u003c\/i\u003e prescribes new research practices in the humanities that involve both written work and the creation of objects-to-think-with that are designed to infiltrate and shape the technoculture that surrounds us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1. Necromedia Theory and Posthumanism\u003cbr\u003e2. \u003ci\u003eBorder Disorder\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e3. Telephone, Pager, Two-Way Speaker, and Other Technologies of Betrayal\u003cbr\u003e4. \u003ci\u003eDreadmill\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e5. Angels in Digital Armor: Technoculture, Terror Management, and the Antihero\u003cbr\u003e6. \u003ci\u003eCycle of Dread\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e7. Speculative Realism Unchained: A Love Story\u003cbr\u003e8. \u003ci\u003eMyth of the Steersman\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e9. Digital Care, Curation, and Curriculum: On Applied Media Theory\u003cbr\u003e10. \u003ci\u003eRoach Lab\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e11. From Dust to Data: On Existential Terror and Horror Philosophy\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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":52570085523736,"sku":"9780816695706","price":55.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/necromedia-hardback-9780816695706","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}