Where Are You?: An Ontology of the Cell Phone

by Maurizio Ferraris

Book Overview

This book sheds light on the most philosophically interesting of contemporary objects: the cell phone. "Where are you?"--a question asked over cell phones myriad times each day--is arguably the most philosophical question of our age, given the transformation of presence the cell phone has wrought in contemporary social life and public space.

Throughout all public spaces, cell phones are now a ubiquitous prosthesis of what Descartes and Hegel...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823256162
• ISBN13: 9780823256167
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.2"