Description: Elements of a Philosophy of Technology : On the Evolutionary History of Culture, Hardcover by Kapp, Ernst; Kirkwood, Jeffrey West (EDT); Weatherby, Leif (EDT); Wolfe, Lauren K. (TRN); Zielinski, Siegfried (AFT), ISBN 1517902258, ISBN-13 9781517902254, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US The first philosophy of technology, constructing humans as technological and technology as an underpinning of all culture Ernst Kapp was a foundational scholar in the fields of media theory and philosophy of technology. His 1877 Elements of a Philosophy of Technology is a visionary study of the human body and its relationship with the world that surrounds it. At ths core is the concept of organ projection: the notion that humans use technology in an effort to project their organs to the outside, to be understood as the soul apparently stepping out of the body in the form of a sending-out of mental qualities into the world of artifacts. Kapp applies this theory of organ projection to various areas of the material worldthe axe externalizes the arm, the lens the eye, the telegraphic system the neural network. From the first tools to acoustic instruments, from architecture to the steam engine and the mechanic routes of the railway, Kapps analysis shifts from simple tools to more complex network technologies to examine the projection of relations. What emerges from Kapps prophetic work is nothing less than the emergence of early elements of a cybernetic paradigm.
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Book Title: Elements of a Philosophy of Technology : On the Evolutionary Hist
Number of Pages: 336 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Elements of a Philosophy of Technology : on the Evolutionary History of Culture
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication Year: 2018
Item Height: 1 in
Subject: Philosophy & Social Aspects, Social Aspects, Individual Philosophers, Inventions, Life Sciences / Human Anatomy & Physiology
Item Weight: 20.8 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Philosophy, Technology & Engineering, Science
Author: Ernst Kapp
Item Length: 8.7 in
Item Width: 5.8 in
Series: Posthumanities Ser.
Format: Hardcover
