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Rhetoric and Ethics in the Cybernetic Age The Transhuman Condition
By Jeff Pruchnic
Copyright 2014
206 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
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Routledge
220 Pages
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Routledge
220 Pages
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Routledge
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It has become increasingly difficult to ignore the ways that the centrality of new media and technologies — from the global networking of information systems and social media to new possibilities for altering human genetics — seem to make obsolete our traditional ways of thinking about ethics and persuasive communication inherited from earlier humanist paradigms. This book argues that rather than... Read more
Introduction: The Cybernetic Age 1. The Transhuman Condition 2. The Age of the World Program: The Convergence of Technics and Media 3. Rhetoric in the Age of Intelligent Machines: Burke on Affect and Persuasion After Cybernetics 4. Any Number Can Play: Burroughs, Deleuze, and the Limits of Control 5. On the Genealogy of Mortals; or, Commodifying Ethics
Biography
Jeff Pruchnic is an Assistant Professor in English at Wayne State University, USA.
