Transductions: Bodies and Machines at SpeedTransductions explores the nature of technological speed and how technology becomes part of living bodies.Drawing on deconstruction and corporeal theory, Transductions re-examines the borders between bodies and machines, between what counts as social and what counts as technological. Using examples which include online computer games, military supercomputers, genomic databases, performance art and the global positioning system, Mackenzie critiques the widely accepted notion that technology speeds everything up, arguing instead that there are only ever differences in speed. |
Contents
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Chapter 1 Radical contingency and the materializations of technology | 29 |
the depth and speed of technical embodiments | 57 |
100 oscillationsecond to 9192631770 Hz | 87 |
speed and delay in Stelarcs Ping Body | 116 |
real time and the whatever body | 145 |
Chapter 6 Life collectives and the prevital technicity of biotechnology | 171 |
Conclusion | 205 |
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Acheulean Agamben artefacts articulation associated atomic clocks Avara becomes Bernard Stiegler bioinformatics biopolitical biotechnology bomb Bruno Latour BSP tree Chapter coding complex complicated computer game constitutive contemporary technology context corporeal culture databases delay detonation diverse realities domain embodiment entities essence of technology event existence folding genes genetic genome gestures Gilbert Simondon global hand-axe Haraway Heidegger Heidegger's historical human and non-human Huygens hylomorphic images indeterminacy individuation informatic instance interaction involved iterability Latour limits living and non-living living bodies machines mapping material matter metastability milieu modern technology modulation mould networks notion nuclear occurs organisms originary technicity oscillations pendulum clock Ping Body play premodern problem protein question radical contingency real-time relation semiotic sequence signifying Simondon simply singular social specific stability Stelarc’s structures supercomputer synchronization technical elements technical ensembles technical mediations technical objects technical practices theory thermonuclear bomb thought tion transductive understood Virilio