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Bernard Stiegler is head of the Institut de recherche et d’innovation du Centre Pompidou and president of the Ars Industrialis association. He is author of more than thirty books, including the recent English translation of Automatic Society: The Future of Work (2017).

Gertrud Koch is senior professor at the Freie Universität Berlin and visiting professor at Brown University. She is the author of numerous books, including Breaking Bad, Breaking Out, Breaking Even.

Thomas Patrick Pringle is a SSHRC Doctoral and Presidential fellow at Brown University, where he is a PhD Candidate in the department of Modern Culture and Media. He has published on the intersection of media, technology, and the environment in The Journal of Film and Video and NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies. ¿

Summary

Automation,animation, and ecosystems are terms of central media-philosophical concern intoday's society of humans and machines. This volume describes the socialconsequences of machines as a mediating concept for the animation of life andautomation of technology.

Product details

• Authors: Gertrud Koch, Gertrud/ Pringle Koch, Thomas Pringle, Thomas Koch Pringle, Bernard Steigler, Bernard Stiegler
• Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781517906498
• ISBN: 978-1-5179-0649-8
• No. of pages: 118
• Series: In Search of Media
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science