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Mediascape, antropotechnics, culture of presence, and the flight from God

Author(s): Felinto, Erick

Abstract

Erick Felinto addresses the growing digital illiteracy compared to times before graphical user interface and calls, with Vilém Flusser, the hacker the actual educational ideal of our time. He discusses the enthusiasm and misconceptions in early net culture discourse, sees ‘speculative futurism’ and ‘theoretical fictions’ as the discursive strategy of tomorrow, considers technology as an ‘uncanny form of life’ and inevitable correction to the dictate of nature, explains the different concepts of posthumanism, and questions that (human) life is necessarily the ultimate goal of the cosmos. He explores the dialectic of silence and phatic communication in new media in the context of a general shift from the ‘culture of meaning’ to a ‘culture of presence’ and the exhaustion of the interpretative paradigm in the Humanities.

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Felinto, Erick: Mediascape, antropotechnics, culture of presence, and the flight from God. In: Simanowski, Roberto: Digital Humanities and Digital Media. Conversations on politics, culture, aesthetics and literacy. London: Open Humanities Press 2016, S. 93-122. DOI: 10.25969/mediarep/11914.
@INCOLLECTION{Felinto2016,
 author = {Felinto, Erick},
 title = {Mediascape, antropotechnics, culture of presence, and the flight from God},
 year = 2016,
 doi = {10.25969/mediarep/11914},
 editor = {Simanowski, Roberto},
 address = {London},
 booktitle = {Digital Humanities and Digital Media. Conversations on politics, culture, aesthetics and literacy},
 pages = {93--122},
 publisher = {Open Humanities Press},
}
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