Self-Writing Machines: Technology and the Question of the Self
In order to show that technology mediates between man and machine, I will discuss in this text a literally other or alter-knowledge system that also heavily relied on self-writing machines: spiritualism. Contrary to scientific knowledge systems, in spiritualism the unforeseen, the singular, and the...
Main Author: | Christian Kassung |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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ScholarWorks @ UMass Amherst
2015-09-01
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Series: | communication +1 |
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Online Access: | http://scholarworks.umass.edu/cpo/vol4/iss1/5 |
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