Posthumanism and the Digital University - Texts, Bodies and Materialities

Zusatztext This book undeniably provides both the inspiration and means to bring posthumanism ‘down to earth’, and to shine a much-needed critical light on the corridors and conduits of the digital university. Informationen zum Autor Lesley Gourlay is Professor of Education at the IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK.Explores how digital technologies are changing knowledge practices in contemporary higher education, contesting the primacy of traditional text. Zusammenfassung It is a commonplace in educational policy and theory to claim that digital technology has ‘transformed’ the university, the nature of learning and even the essence of what it means to be a scholar or a student. However, these claims have not always been based on strong research evidence. What are students and scholars actually doing in the day-to-day life of the digital university? This book examines in detail how the world of the digital interacts with texts, artefacts, devices and humans, in the contemporary university setting. Weaving together perspectives from a range of thinkers and disciplinary sources, Lesley Gourlay draws on ideas from posthuman and new materialist theory in particular, to open up our understanding about how digital knowledge practices operate. She proposes that digital engagement in the university should not be regarded as ‘virtual’ or disembodied, but instead may be understood as a complex set of entanglements of the body, texts and material artefacts, making a case that agency and the ways in which knowledge emerges should be regarded as ‘more than human’. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1. More Than Human2. Matter3. Body4. Presence5. Interfaces6. Wayfaring7. Quantum8. Document9. Conclusions, or So What?ReferencesIndex

Product details

• Authors: Dr Lesley (Institute of Education Gourlay, Lesley Gourlay, Gourlay Lesley
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781350038172
• ISBN: 978-1-350-03817-2
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Literacy, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Literacy, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher