Brian Rotman

Gebundenes Buch

Becoming Beside Ourselves

The Alphabet, Ghosts, and Distributed Human Being

Beschreibung

Theoretical study of the relationship between technoscience and the human body that examines the ways in which bodies and machines "speak" not just through language but also through gesture, numbers, and other non-alphabetic systems of expressio

Autor

Brian Rotman is Distinguished Humanities Professor in the Department of Comparative Studies at Ohio State University. He is the author of several books, including Mathematics as Sign: Writing, Imagining, Counting; Ad Infinitum...The Ghost in Turing’s Machine: Taking God out of Mathematics and Putting the Body Back In; and Signifying Nothing: the Semiotics of Zero . Rotman has a doctorate in mathematics. Timothy Lenoir is the Kimberly J. Jenkins Chair of New Technologies and Society at Duke University.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 451g
• ISBN-13: 9780822341833
• ISBN-10: 0822341832
• Artikelnr.: 23369529