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Machine, Paperback / softback Book

Machine Paperback / softback

Part of the In Search of Media series

Paperback / softback

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On the social consequences of machines Automation, animation, and ecosystems are terms of central media-philosophical concern in today’s society of humans and machines.

This volume describes the social consequences of machines as a mediating concept for the animation of life and automation of technology.

Bernard Stiegler’s automatic society illustrates how digital media networks establish a new proletariat of knowledge workers.

Gertrud Koch offers the animation of the technical to account for the pathological relations that arise between people and their devices. And Thomas Pringle synthesizes how automation and animation explain the history of intellectual exchanges that led to the hybrid concept of the ecosystem, a term that blends computer and natural science.

All three contributions analyse how categories of life and technology become mixed in governmental policies, economic exploitation and pathologies of everyday life thereby both curiously and critically advancing the term that underlies those new developments: ‘machine.’ 

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