{"product_id":"becoming-beside-ourselves-9780822341833","title":"Becoming Beside Ourselves","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresents the investigation that the renowned cultural theorist and mathematician Brian Rotman began in his previous books Signifying Nothing and Ad Infinitum ...the Ghost in Turing's Machine: exploring certain signs and the conceptual innovations and subjectivities that they facilitate or foreclose.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eBecoming Beside Ourselves\u003c\/i\u003e is a bold, provocative, and highly original argument about the relation between medial effects and changing manifestations of subjectivity. It traces a sweeping trajectory from what Brian Rotman calls the ‘lettered self,’ associated with alphabetic inscription and the codex printed book, to the subject as distributed assemblage associated with network culture. While others have made parts of this kind of argument before, Rotman’s analysis is unique in placing special emphasis on gesture and revealing its traces in orality and print. In a brilliant synthesis, he mixes evolutionary theory with a Deleuzian view of agent-as-assemblage, arguing that computational media both reveal and perform distributed cognition as a crucial aspect of human being-in-the-world. Essential reading for anyone interested in the interrelations between computational media, contemporary subjectivity, and human evolution.”—\u003cb\u003eKatherine Hayles\u003c\/b\u003e, University of California, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e“Brian Rotman’s exciting new text not only adds to his previous work on signifying technology (zero, infinity), it expands his study of abstraction to encompass the construction of subjectivity itself. \u003ci\u003eBecoming Beside Ourselves\u003c\/i\u003e will open up all kinds of unexplored terrains, from grammatology to psychoanalysis, from the history of technology to the study of culture and religion.”—\u003cb\u003eFredric Jameson\u003c\/b\u003e, Duke University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword: Machine Bodies, Ghosts, and Para-Selves: Confronting the Singularity with Brian Rotman \/ Timothy Lenoir ix\u003cbr\u003e Preface xxxi\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments xxxv\u003cbr\u003e Aura xxxvii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Lettered Selves and Beyond 1\u003cbr\u003e Part I \u003cbr\u003e 1. The Alphabetic Body 13\u003cbr\u003e 2. Gesture and Non-Alphabetic Writing 33\u003cbr\u003e Interlude \u003cbr\u003e 3. Technological Mathematics 57\u003cbr\u003e Part II \u003cbr\u003e 4. Parallel Selves 81\u003cbr\u003e 5. Ghost Effects 107\u003cbr\u003e Notes 139\u003cbr\u003e References 151\u003cbr\u003e Index 163","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406050468183,"sku":"9780822341833","price":74.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822341833.jpg?v=1730494363","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/becoming-beside-ourselves-9780822341833","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}