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Book SynopsisExpanded new edition of the landmark book demonstrating the practice of phenomenology through visual illusions and ambiguous drawingsSince the initial publication of Experimental Phenomenology in 1977, Don Ihde''s groundbreaking career has developed from his contributions to the philosophy of technology and technoscience to his own postphenomenology. This new and expanded edition of Experimental Phenomenology resituates the text in the succeeding currents of Ihde''s work with a new preface and two new sections, one devoted to pragmatism and phenomenology and the other to technologies and material culture. Now, in the case of tools, instruments, and media, Ihde''s active and experimental style of phenomenology is taken into cyberspace, science and media technologies, computer games, display screens, and more.

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Book SynopsisThe author examines the history and contemporary development of interpretation theory, with a special emphasis on how science in practice involves and implicates interpretive processes.

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Book SynopsisAcoustic Technics opens with the 19th century discovery of radiation which exceeds our human bodily perceptual experience, light beyond light, sound beyond sound and on into what today we call the electromagnetic spectrum. Claiming a second scientific revolution through imaging technologies and drawing from both instrumental sensory mediation and animal studies, Acoustic Technics follows listening in its new forms into music, echo-location, infra and ultra-sounds, medical diagnosis, surveillance, and subsurface and interplanetary domains. Synthesized sounds, sonification, in both esoteric and popular technologies such as earbuds, cellphones, television are analyzed from a postphenomenological perspective.Trade ReviewWhile Acoustic Technics will be at home on shelves of readers already familiar with his work, it is a book that deserves recognition by a wider readership because the issues he raises concern us all. . . .Ihde draws on more than 40 years of careful thought and reflection about sight and sound in human experience and practice, and extensive and wideranging reading across both arts and sciences. This experience is evident in the breath-taking number of historical figures and topics that are covered within its 148 pages, from prehistoric rock art and Galileo the musician, to modern espionage, big data, and ‘radical’ new ways of detecting cancer cells. One might think that such coverage would lack depth but Ihde’s ability to step back from detail, distill information gained from a lifetime’s experience, and provide a framework within which it is possible to locate and critically examine past, present and (possibly) future technologies, negates any such thought. . . .Acoustic Technics is a slim volume...but it has changed the way I think about technology and it highlights the part we can all play in looking beyond the early hype of new inventions. * Network Review *In Acoustic Technics, Don Ihde provides fascinating insights into the embodied, sensory experience of sound. Unlike the majority of analysis in science and technology studies (STS), that reinforces the visual dominance of science, Ihde’s work has always acknowledged the important role of the other senses in the practice and representation of science. His substantial body of work in the phenomenology of sound has led to this wide-ranging and inspirational book that not only examines the many reasons for the visual dominance of science in the modern era, but amplifies the often hidden and obscure history of embodied sound and multi-sensory tools and experiments. The book is an excellent resource for those working in science studies, technological development, and contemporary music and the arts. -- Andrea Polli, Mesa Del Sol Endowed Chair of Digital Media, University of New MexicoReading Don Ihde is better than drinking a vintage wine. Not only does he expand your palette and engagement with many different senses, but unlike a wine, you can keep returning to these essays for more and more enjoyment. The wisdom of a career well-spent comes through in the way that, unlike with reading analytical philosophers, he opens up topics and makes you more and more curious about this strange twenty-first century post-phenomenological world of technology, animals and humans. -- Trevor Pinch, Goldwin Smith Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Cornell UniversityIn this 'late work' Don Ihde brings his impressive postphenomenological perspective and insights into technics to bear upon how the body experiences sound beyond hearing. He presents his arguments through a dazzling array of examples taken from science, music and media, presented in lucid and always learned prose. Acoustic Technics is a wonderful read and should be read by all those interested in the relationship between sound, body, culture and science. -- Michael Bull, Professor of Sound Studies, University of SussexTable of ContentsPreface: Prereflections on Science, Technologies and Sonification Part One: A Sono and Sightscape: Locating Acoustic Technologies Chapter One: Introduction: Sound beyond Sound and Light beyond Light Chapter Two: Imaging: A Second Scientific Revolution Chapter Three: Animals and Robots Chapter Four: Does Postphenomenology have a Bat Problem? Part Two: Dimensional or “Case” Studies for Auditory Capacities Chapter Five Music: Technologies-Musics-Embodiment Chapter Six: Synthesizing Sounds Chapter Seven: Prostheses: Embodying Hearing Devices Chapter Eight: Listening to Cancer Chapter Nine: Acoustics below the Surface Chapter Ten: Multimedia-Multitasking-Multistability Epilogue: Are we Posthuman?

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Book SynopsisAcoustic Technics, aware that digital and computer embedded technologies produce data that today can be transformed into acoustic images, notes the transformations these phenomena imply for a diverse set of practices, such as music, communication, medical diagnosis, and scientific knowledge.Trade ReviewWhile Acoustic Technics will be at home on shelves of readers already familiar with his work, it is a book that deserves recognition by a wider readership because the issues he raises concern us all. . . .Ihde draws on more than 40 years of careful thought and reflection about sight and sound in human experience and practice, and extensive and wideranging reading across both arts and sciences. This experience is evident in the breath-taking number of historical figures and topics that are covered within its 148 pages, from prehistoric rock art and Galileo the musician, to modern espionage, big data, and ‘radical’ new ways of detecting cancer cells. One might think that such coverage would lack depth but Ihde’s ability to step back from detail, distill information gained from a lifetime’s experience, and provide a framework within which it is possible to locate and critically examine past, present and (possibly) future technologies, negates any such thought. . . .Acoustic Technics is a slim volume...but it has changed the way I think about technology and it highlights the part we can all play in looking beyond the early hype of new inventions. * Network Review *In Acoustic Technics, Don Ihde provides fascinating insights into the embodied, sensory experience of sound. Unlike the majority of analysis in science and technology studies (STS), that reinforces the visual dominance of science, Ihde’s work has always acknowledged the important role of the other senses in the practice and representation of science. His substantial body of work in the phenomenology of sound has led to this wide-ranging and inspirational book that not only examines the many reasons for the visual dominance of science in the modern era, but amplifies the often hidden and obscure history of embodied sound and multi-sensory tools and experiments. The book is an excellent resource for those working in science studies, technological development, and contemporary music and the arts. -- Andrea Polli, Mesa Del Sol Endowed Chair of Digital Media, University of New MexicoReading Don Ihde is better than drinking a vintage wine. Not only does he expand your palette and engagement with many different senses, but unlike a wine, you can keep returning to these essays for more and more enjoyment. The wisdom of a career well-spent comes through in the way that, unlike with reading analytical philosophers, he opens up topics and makes you more and more curious about this strange twenty-first century post-phenomenological world of technology, animals and humans. -- Trevor Pinch, Goldwin Smith Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Cornell UniversityIn this 'late work' Don Ihde brings his impressive postphenomenological perspective and insights into technics to bear upon how the body experiences sound beyond hearing. He presents his arguments through a dazzling array of examples taken from science, music and media, presented in lucid and always learned prose. Acoustic Technics is a wonderful read and should be read by all those interested in the relationship between sound, body, culture and science. -- Michael Bull, Professor of Sound Studies, University of SussexTable of ContentsPreface: Prereflections on Science, Technologies and Sonification Part One: A Sono and Sightscape: Locating Acoustic Technologies Chapter One: Introduction: Sound beyond Sound and Light beyond Light Chapter Two: Imaging: A Second Scientific Revolution Chapter Three: Animals and Robots Chapter Four: Does Postphenomenology have a Bat Problem? Part Two: Dimensional or “Case” Studies for Auditory Capacities Chapter Five Music: Technologies-Musics-Embodiment Chapter Six: Synthesizing Sounds Chapter Seven: Prostheses: Embodying Hearing Devices Chapter Eight: Listening to Cancer Chapter Nine: Acoustics below the Surface Chapter Ten: Multimedia-Multitasking-Multistability Epilogue: Are we Posthuman?

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Book SynopsisDon Ihde is one of the world''s foremost thinkers on the place of technologies in our lives. Over the course of a long career, he has built a unique and useful perspective by expanding on phenomenological and American pragmatist philosophy and has developed wide-ranging insights and conceptual tools for describing the details of our experience across the various areas of human activity, including scientific practice, anthropological history, computer interface, design, art history, and the technologies of everyday life. The Critical Ihde brings together many of Ihde''s most influential writings, as well as a number of under-recognized gems. Across these works are examples of his influential contributions to the phenomenology of human auditory and visual experience, his foundational work on the phenomenology of technology, and his thoughts on the technologies of scientific practice, including laboratory and medical imaging. Further, these chapters reveal the development of "postphenomenology," Ihde''s original philosophical perspective, one that continues to flourish today across the work of a growing interdisciplinary and international collective of scholars.

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Book SynopsisDigital Media: Human-Technology Connection examines what it is like to be alive in today's technologically textured world and showcases specific digital media technologies that make this kind of world possible. So much of human experience occurs through digital media that reflection on the process and proliferation of digital consumption has become necessary. This book takes on that task through an interdisciplinary array of sources including philosophy, media studies, film studies, media ecology, and philosophy of technology. When placed in the interpretive lenses of artifact, instrument, and tool, digital media can be studied in a uniquely different way that pushes the boundaries on production, distribution, and communication and alters the way humans and technology connect with each other and the world. In the first section, Raw Materials, Stacey O'Neal Irwin examines pertinent concepts like digital media, philosophy of technology, phenomenology and postphenomenology . In the secondTrade ReviewThis small volume has an immodest aim—to analyze 'how digital media change our day-to-day lifeworld experience.' This analysis consists primarily of two components. First is a description of 'postphenomenology,' which is described as phenomenology leavened with pragmatism and close attention to the experiences of using specific technologies. The second is a series of 'cases,' which include descriptions of the use of screens, earbuds, portable music players, digitally altered ('photoshopped') images, aggregate news services, and athletic performance monitoring. Straightforward descriptions of these familiar digital media experiences are juxtaposed with metaphors (e.g., the 'siren's song of today'), oracular statements by phenomenologists, and, most especially, open-ended questions ('Is the technological weave in our contemporary world a heavy covering?' or 'If I cannot hear lifeworld sounds, am I less of a citizen?'). Readers should not expect definitive answers to such questions but instead are encouraged to be mindful of how casual, but pervasive, use of digital media can alter basic experiences and thus who people are. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students and professionals. * CHOICE *Fully in line with her own conceptual perspective, Stacey Irwin weaves an impressive tapestry. Effortlessly mapping the ‘technological texture’ with which digital media overlay our lives nowadays, she not only succeeds in expanding and deepening the field of postphenomenology substantially, she also delivers an essential new contribution to the philosophy of technology as such. Her theoretical survey is crystal-clear, solid and indispensable, but even more of a treat are the empirical cases, in which she playfully though rigorously explores, from a phenomenological angle, many of the digital technologies that characterize contemporary life. Undoubtedly, Digital Media: Human-Technology Connection will become a mainstay of philosophical media research, a book of crucial use to many trying to understand the dynamics of digital media in years to come. -- Yoni Van Den Eede, Free University of BrusselsIn this rangy text, Stacey O'Neal Irwin traverses and integrates a wide and diverse terrain. She explores the human-technology connection from a variety of approaches and angles, bringing phenomenological sensibilities and ethnographic thick descriptions to the experience of being digitally mediated. Digital Media well captures the spirit and flavor, the overall texture, of today's digital environments. -- Corey Anton, Grand Valley State UniversityTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Foreword Section 1: Raw Materials Chapter 1: Exploring the Texture Chapter 2: Describing Digital Media Chapter 3: Digging Section 2: Feeling the Weave Chapter 4: Case: The Screen Chapter 5: Case: Dwelling in digital Sound Chapter 6: Case: Earbud Embodiment Chapter 7: Case: Being-In-The World-With my iPod Chapter 8: Case: Dubstep Chapter 9: Case: The Photoshop Aesthetic Chapter 10: Case: Data mining Chapter 11: Case: Aggregate News Chapter 12: Case: Self Tracking Epilogue

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Book SynopsisThis book provides an introduction to postphenomenology, an emerging school of thought in the philosophy of technology and science and technology studies, which addresses the relationships users develop with the devices they use.Trade ReviewThis book is a major contribution to the sparse body of knowledge in the Western philosophical tradition dealing with the foundations of a field of scholarly research. Here the case is so-called postphenomenology, which owes so much to Don Ihde, who provides a brilliant introduction. The two co-editors are equally important, and represent researchers in both the United States and Europe, whose contributions constitute much of the volume. -- Paul Durbin, University of DelawareThis anthology is an absolute must for newcomers as well as those versed in the field and its discussions. The book shows how far the burgeoning field of postphenomenological analysis has come since the broader and largely technology-deterministic approaches made by the phenomenological predecessors, most prominently Martin Heidegger. Both novices and those already acquainted with this philosophical style of analysis get plenty of new food for thought in essays addressing technological agency, speed, ethics, humanoid robots, bodies, science fiction, politics, philosophy of design, and scientific practice, as well as a number of brilliantly executed and informative case studies. -- Cathrine Hasse, University of AarhusTable of Contents1. A Field Guide to Postphenomenology, Robert Rosenberger & Peter-Paul Verbeek 2. Why Postphenomenology Needs a Metaphysics, Lenore Langsdorf 3. What Robotic Re-embodiment Reveals about Virtual Re-embodiment: A Note on the Extension Thesis, Kirk M. Besmer 4. Thinking Technology With Merleau-Ponty, Aud Sissel Hoel & Annamaria Carusi 5. Movies and Bodies: Variations of the Embodied Self in Science-Fiction Techno Fantasies, Marie-Christine Nizzi 6. Bodies as Technology: How Can Postphenomenologists Deal with the Matter of Human Technique?, Fernando Secomandi 7. Four Dimensions of Technological Mediation, Asle H. Kiran 8. Tracing the Tracker: A Postphenomenological Inquiry into Self-Tracking Technologies, Yoni Van Den Eede 9. A Century on Speed: Reflections on Movement and Mobility in the 20th Century, Søren Riis 10. Searching for Alterity: What Can We Learn From Interviewing Humanoid Robots? Frances Bottenberg 11. Postphenomenology of the Robot Medical Student, Chris Kaposy 12. Mediating Multiplicity: Brain-Dead Bodies and Organ Transplant Protocols, Adam M. Rosenfeld 13. Towards a Hermeneutics of Unveiling, Jan Kyrre Berg Friis 14. Making the Gestalt Switch, Andrew Feenberg 15. Postphenomenology with an Eye to the Future, Diane Michelfelder 16. Stability, Instability, and Phenomenology, Albert Borgmann

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Book SynopsisPostphenomenological Investigations: Essays on HumanTechnology Relations provides an introduction to the school of thought called postphenomenology and showcases projects at the cutting edge of this perspective. Postphenomenology presents a unique blend of insights from the philosophical traditions of phenomenology and American pragmatism, and applies them to studies of user relations to technologies. These studies provide deep descriptions of the ways technologies transform our abilities, augment our experience, and shape the world around us. This book proceeds with a preface by Don Ihde, postphenomenology's founder, and a detailed review of the main ideas of this perspective by the editors Robert Rosenberger and Peter-Paul Verbeek. The body of this volume is composed of twelve postphenomenological essays which reflect the expansive range, detail-orientation, and interdisciplinarity of this school of thought. These essays confront a broad assortment of topics, both abstract and concreTrade ReviewThis collection provides an excellent overview of current work in one of the most important current approaches to the philosophy of technology. . . .The editors' summaries of the sixteen essays provide the reader with a helpful roadmap of the book's organization and content. . . .This is a well-conceived and articulated book and certainly one that both advances studies in the philosophy of technology and contributes to new ways of thinking about phenomenology. * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *[The book] is well referenced, and key texts are well signposting, meaning that a lateral rather than linear read may be more productive for newcomers to postphenomenology. * Centre for Medical Humanities *This book is a major contribution to the sparse body of knowledge in the Western philosophical tradition dealing with the foundations of a field of scholarly research. Here the case is so-called postphenomenology, which owes so much to Don Ihde, who provides a brilliant introduction. The two co-editors are equally important, and represent researchers in both the United States and Europe, whose contributions constitute much of the volume. -- Paul Durbin, University of DelawareThis anthology is an absolute must for newcomers as well as those versed in the field and its discussions. The book shows how far the burgeoning field of postphenomenological analysis has come since the broader and largely technology-deterministic approaches made by the phenomenological predecessors, most prominently Martin Heidegger. Both novices and those already acquainted with this philosophical style of analysis get plenty of new food for thought in essays addressing technological agency, speed, ethics, humanoid robots, bodies, science fiction, politics, philosophy of design, and scientific practice, as well as a number of brilliantly executed and informative case studies. -- Cathrine Hasse, University of AarhusTable of Contents1. A Field Guide to Postphenomenology, Robert Rosenberger & Peter-Paul Verbeek 2. Why Postphenomenology Needs a Metaphysics, Lenore Langsdorf 3. What Robotic Re-embodiment Reveals about Virtual Re-embodiment: A Note on the Extension Thesis, Kirk M. Besmer 4. Thinking Technology With Merleau-Ponty, Aud Sissel Hoel & Annamaria Carusi 5. Movies and Bodies: Variations of the Embodied Self in Science-Fiction Techno Fantasies, Marie-Christine Nizzi 6. Bodies as Technology: How Can Postphenomenologists Deal with the Matter of Human Technique?, Fernando Secomandi 7. Four Dimensions of Technological Mediation, Asle H. Kiran 8. Tracing the Tracker: A Postphenomenological Inquiry into Self-Tracking Technologies, Yoni Van Den Eede 9. A Century on Speed: Reflections on Movement and Mobility in the 20th Century, Søren Riis 10. Searching for Alterity: What Can We Learn From Interviewing Humanoid Robots? Frances Bottenberg 11. Postphenomenology of the Robot Medical Student, Chris Kaposy 12. Mediating Multiplicity: Brain-Dead Bodies and Organ Transplant Protocols, Adam M. Rosenfeld 13. Towards a Hermeneutics of Unveiling, Jan Kyrre Berg Friis 14. Making the Gestalt Switch, Andrew Feenberg 15. Postphenomenology with an Eye to the Future, Diane Michelfelder 16. Stability, Instability, and Phenomenology, Albert Borgmann

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