Dorsality: Thinking Back Through Technology and Politics Volume 5

by David Wills

In this highly original book David Wills rethinks not only our nature before all technology but also what we understand to be technology. Rather than considering the human being as something natural that then develops technology, Wills argues, we should instead imagine an originary imbrication of nature and machine that begins with a dorsal turn-a turn that takes place behind our back, outside our field of vision.

With subtle and insightful...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816653461
• ISBN13: 9780816653461
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.9"