Mobile Media Technologies and Poi¿sis

Rediscovering How We Use Technology to Cultivate Meaning in a Nihilistic World
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-86704-5
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 167 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 2404 g

This book intertwines phenomenological fieldwork with a wide range of Heidegger’s writings to explore how our everyday uses of mobile media technologies permit a unique avenue to rediscover poiesis, our creative cultivation that is simultaneously a bringing forth, a revealing. Shining a light on poiesis better allows us to see how human beings are, at their core, dwellers that disclose worlds and cultivate meaning. In our chaotic modern world, our ability to appreciate this foundational feature of our existence seems to be fading from view. Such forgetting has fractured our confidence; we increasingly question, doubt, and struggle with what unfolds before us. This book thus argues that we ought to look towards our intimate and recursive mobile media practices as the avenue for which we can revitalize poiesis, as doing so allows us a purview into how we are always situated in a meaningful locale, playing an imperative role in its continued cultivation.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Battin, Justin Michael

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie der Technik
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. Situating Heidegger for the Study of Mobile Media Technology Use.- 3. This Technology is a Part of Me.- 4. The Immaterial as Traversable.- 5. Our Relationship to the Technological Self.- 6. The Saving Power of marginal Practices.

Über Autor(innen)

Justin Michael Battin is Assistant Professor of English Cultures and Literatures at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. His research interests include media anthropology, the philosophy of technology, and Heidegger’s phenomenology, all of which have culminated to provide the foundation for this book.