We are delighted to announce the latest title in the New Metaphysics series:
Machine Sensation, by Tessa G. Leach
Emphasising the alien qualities of anthropomorphic technologies, Machine Sensation
makes a conscious effort to increase rather than decrease the tension
between nonhuman and human experience. In a series of rigorously
executed cases studies, including natural user interfaces, artificial
intelligence as well as sex robots, Leach shows how object-oriented
ontology enables one to insist upon the unhuman nature of technology
while acknowledging its immense power and significance in human life. Machine Sensation
meticulously engages OOO, Actor Network Theory, the philosophy of
technology, cybernetics and posthumanism in innovative and gripping
ways.