French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn

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Title: French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn
Contributors: Chalmers, Madeleine
Publisher Information: Edinburgh University Press, 2025.
Publication Year: 2025
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Subject Terms: Literary Criticism / European / French, Philosophy / Political, Philosophy / Social
Description: French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn traces a genealogy of thinking and writing about technology, which takes us from the French avant-gardes to the contemporary ‘nonhuman turn’ in Anglo-American theory via the Surrealists, Gilbert Simondon, and Gilles Deleuze. Tracking the unruly transition from Catholic vocabularies of grace, potentiality, and actuality to the modern and contemporary secular lexicon of agency, virtuality, and affect, this book explores technology as a source of subject matter and conceptual metaphors, but also probes how ideas and words are modes of technicity through which we shape and reshape the world. Fusing literature, philosophy, and theology, it offers readers new contexts – and questions – for the egalitarian ontological commitments of contemporary post- and nonhuman thinking.
Document Type: BOOK
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Language: English
ISBN: 978-1-399-53983-8
1-399-53983-3
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Database: Open Research Library
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ISBN:9781399539838
1399539833