Prometheanism : technology, digital culture, and human obsolescence /
Muller, Christopher John,
Prometheanism : technology, digital culture, and human obsolescence / Christopher John Muller. - 1 online resource (187 pages) - Critical perspectives on theory, culture, and politics .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Thinking finitude, digital technology, and human obsolescence with Gunther Anders -- On Promethean shame -- Preface to the translation of On Promethean shame -- On Promethean shame (by Gunther Anders) -- Utopia inverted - Gunther Anders in the digital age -- Better than human: Promethean Shame and the (trans)humanist project -- The punishment of Prometheus -- Anaesthetic lives: joyful surrender to painful obsolescence -- The unsalaried masses: working toward a world without us -- Invisible monsters: your smartphone is an atom bomb.
9781783482405 (e-book)
Anders, Gunther, 1902-1992.
Human beings.
Philosophical anthropology.
Technology--Philosophy.
Technology--Moral and ethical aspects.
Electronic books.
B3199.A534 / M85 2016
193
Prometheanism : technology, digital culture, and human obsolescence / Christopher John Muller. - 1 online resource (187 pages) - Critical perspectives on theory, culture, and politics .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Thinking finitude, digital technology, and human obsolescence with Gunther Anders -- On Promethean shame -- Preface to the translation of On Promethean shame -- On Promethean shame (by Gunther Anders) -- Utopia inverted - Gunther Anders in the digital age -- Better than human: Promethean Shame and the (trans)humanist project -- The punishment of Prometheus -- Anaesthetic lives: joyful surrender to painful obsolescence -- The unsalaried masses: working toward a world without us -- Invisible monsters: your smartphone is an atom bomb.
9781783482405 (e-book)
Anders, Gunther, 1902-1992.
Human beings.
Philosophical anthropology.
Technology--Philosophy.
Technology--Moral and ethical aspects.
Electronic books.
B3199.A534 / M85 2016
193