Michel Serres

Thumbelina (eBook, PDF)

The Culture and Technology of Millennials
Übersetzer: Smith, Daniel W.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The title of this timely and thought-provoking book, a French bestseller, refers to schoolgirls sending text messages to their friends on their smart phones. Michel Serres, one of France's most important living intellectuals, uses this image to get at something far broader: that humans are formed and shaped by technologies, and that with the advent of computers, smart phones, and the Internet, a new human is being born. These new humans beings are our children-thumbelina (petite poucette) and tom thumb (petit poucet)-but technologies have been changing so fast that parents scarcely know their children. Serres documents this cultural revolution, arguing that there have been several similar revolutions in the past: from oral cultures to cultures focused on reading and writing; the advent of the printing press; and now the complex changes brought about by the new information technologies-changes that are taking place at an accelerated pace and that affect us all.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798765181829
• Artikelnr.: 74391040

Autorenporträt

Michel Serres is a Professor in the History of Science at Stanford University and a member of the Academie Francaise.

Inhaltsangabe

Dedication
Acknowledgements
Part I: Thumbelina
1. Novelties
2. From the Body to Knowledge
3. The Individual
4. What to Transmit? To Whom to Transmit It? How to Transmit It?
5. Envoi
Part II: School
1. Thumbelina's Head
2. The Hard and the Soft
3. The Space of the Page
4. New Technologies
5. A Short History
6. Thumbelina Meditates
7. The Voice
8. Supply and Demand
9. Children Transfixed
10. The Liberation of Bodies
11. Mobility: Conductor and Passenger
12. The Troubadour of Knowledge
13. The Disparate Against Classification
14. The Abstract Concept
Part III: Society
1. in Praise of Reciprocal Grading
2. In Praise of Humphrey Potter
3. The Death of Work
4. In Praise of the Hospital
5. In Praise of Human Voices
6. In Praise of Networks
7. The Reversal of the Presumption of Incompetence
8. In Praise of Marquetry
9. In Praise of the Third Support
10. In Praise of the Pseudonym
11. The Algorithmic and the Procedural
12. Emergence
13. In Praise of the Code
14. In Praise of the Passport
15. The Image of Society Today
Index