{"product_id":"love-and-other-technologies-dominic-pettman-9780823226689","title":"Love and Other Technologies: Retrofitting Eros for the Information Age","description":"\u003cp\u003eCan love really be considered another form of technology? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDominic Pettman says it can--although not before carefully redefining technology as a cultural challenge to what we mean by the \"human\" in the information age. Using the writings of such important thinkers as Giorgio Agamben, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Bernard Stiegler as a springboard, Pettman explores the \"techtonic\" movements of contemporary culture, specifically in relation to the language of eros. Highly ritualized expressions of desire--love, in other words--always reveal an era's attitude toward what it means to exist as a self among others. For Pettman, the articulation of love is a technique of belonging: a way of responding to the basic plurality of everyone's identity, a process that becomes increasingly complex as the forms of mediated communication, from cell phone and text messaging to the mass media, multiply and mesh together. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWresting the idea of love from the arthritic hands of Romanticism, Pettman demonstrates the ways in which this dynamic assemblage--\"the stirrings of the soul\"--have always been a matter of tools, devices, prosthetics, and media. Love is, after all, something we make. And, love, this book argues, is not eternal, but external.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dominic Pettman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0823226689\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780823226689\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.23lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d","brand":"Dominic Pettman","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48136174371071,"sku":"9780823226689","price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c28b318d-67f9-49ab-99a6-810ffa11ad76.jpg?v=1770161008","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/love-and-other-technologies-dominic-pettman-9780823226689","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}