[spectre] Machine Sensation by Tessa G. Leach - available open access

[Gary Hall]

Dear All,

Open Humanities Press is pleased to announce the latest title in Graham 
Harman and Bruno Latour’s New Metaphysics series:

MACHINE SENSATIONS: Anthropomorphism and ‘Natural’ Interaction with 
Nonhumans, by Tessa G. Leach

Like all Open Humanities Press books, Machine Sensation is available for 
free:
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/machine-sensation/

Emphasising the alien qualities of anthropomorphic technologies, Machine 
Sensation makes a conscious effort to increase rather than decrease the 
tension between nonhuman and human experience. In a series of rigorously 
executed cases studies, including natural user interfaces, artificial 
intelligence as well as sex robots, Leach shows how object-oriented 
ontology enables one to insist upon the unhuman nature of technology 
while acknowledging its immense power and significance in human life. 
Machine Sensation meticulously engages OOO, Actor Network Theory, the 
philosophy of technology, cybernetics and posthumanism in innovative and 
gripping ways.

Author Bio
Dr Tessa Leach completed her PhD in history & philosophy of technology 
at the University of Melbourne in 2018. Her work exists at an 
intersection of metaphysics, the history and philosophy of technology, 
science and technology studies, videogames studies, gender studies, 
queer STS, and animal ethology.

All the best,
Sigi, David, Gary


-- 
Gary Hall
Professor of Media
Director of the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Faculty of Arts & Humanities, Coventry University:
http://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/areas-of-research/postdigital-cultures

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