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Gray Kochhar-Lindgren

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Adding to the growing field of posthuman or cyborg studies, TechnoLogics explores how our position in the technologized world reorders, in the most radical ways imaginable, our basic experience of the lines governing literary, philosophical, and cultural production. The ancient dream of immortality is now becoming realized through cloning, genetic research, and artificial intelligence, bringing with it the need for new forms of both reading and living in the everyday world. In this emerging cyborg culture, what is to come for us is not predictable but, instead, an open possibility to be shaped by the work of, among others, artists, computer designers, scientists, and writers. Through encounters with Plato, Melville, Marx, Jünger, Heidegger, Freud, Derrida, Baudrillard, and others, Gray Kochhar-Lindgren identifies the causes, characteristics, and links between the most primordial of wishes—immortality—and the highest of high tech, and asks how, in our culture of technocapitalism, we can continue to listen to the faint call of ethics.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

I. Laying Down the Power Grid

1. Call Forwarding

2. On-(the)-Line

3. The Platonic Teleport

II. Ghosts in the Machines

4. The Elixir of Life

5. The Immortality Machine of Capitalism

6. Bartleby the Incalculable

III. The Suspension of Animation

7. The Drone of Technocapitalism

8. The Psychotelemetry of Surveillance

9. Temps: Time, Work, and the Delay

Conclusion: Heeding the Phantomenological

Notes

Works Cited

Index

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Publié par

State University of New York Press

Date de parution

01 février 2012

EAN13

9780791483985

Langue

English

TechnoLogics

Ghosts, the Incalculable,

and the Suspension of Animation

Gray Kochhar-Lindgren

State University of New York Press

Published by State University of New York Press, Albany

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Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data Kochhar-Lindgren, Gray. TechnoLogics : ghosts, the incalculable, and the suspension of animation / Gray Kochhar-Lindgren. p. cm. — (SUNY series in postmodern culture) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0–7914–6303–6 (alk. paper) — ISBN 0–7914–6304–4 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Technology—Social aspects. I. Title. II. Series.

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for Duncan and his generation

Do we stand in the very twilight of the most monstrous transformation our planet has ever undergone, the twilight of that epoch in which earth itself hangs suspended? —Heidegger

No one is allowed on these premises if he is afraid of machines and if he still believes that literature, and per-haps even thought, ought to exorcise the machine, the two having nothing to do with each other.

—Derrida

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Contents

I. Laying Down the Power Grid 1. Call Forwarding 2. On-(the)-Line 3. The Platonic Teleport

II. Ghosts in the Machines 4. The Elixir of Life 5. The Immortality Machine of Capitalism 6. Bartleby the Incalculable

III. The Suspension of Animation 7. The Drone of Technocapitalism 8. The Psychotelemetry of Surveillance 9. Temps: Time, Work, and the Delay Conclusion: Heeding the Phantomenological Notes Works Cited Index

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Acknowledgments

Writing is an act of gratitude. My thanks go to Barry Alford, Anne Alton, Gary Astrachan, Bill Brevda, Mary Ann Crawford, William Doty, Hedwig Fraunhofer, Peter Haddad, Heidi Holder, Robert Hrdina, Joseph Lease, John Moore, Jerry Neeb-Crippen, Daniel Pat-terson, Robert Paul, Steve Scholl, David Smith, Christina Tassev, and Aparna Zambare. A special note of gratitude to Ron Primeau for initiating me into the lore of the goat, to Stacy Thompson for keep-ing me meandering toward the flag, and to Mark Freed for holding the nonmodern door to the Academetron open. The Dean’s Office of the College of Humanities, Social, and Be-havioral Sciences at Central Michigan University, as well as the Fac-ulty Research and Creative Endeavors Committee and the Office of International Education, provided essential support for my work. Parts ofTechnoLogicsfirst appeared in scholarly journals. My thanks to Arthur and Marilouise Kroker, editors ofCTheory, to Mark Bracher, editor at theJournal of the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society, and to Geraldine Shipton atPsychoanalytic Studiesfor their permission to incorporate the revised essays into the book. It has been a pleasure to work with all those involved at the SUNY Press. The astute comments of the anonymous readers greatly im-proved the book. Without the invaluable assistance of Wyatt Benner, Diane Ganeles, and Susan Petrie, as well as the expert guidance of Joseph Natoli, the series editor, and James Peltz, editor-in-chief at the Press, there would be no book. My gratitude to them all. Hats off, as well, to the kinfolk on this and the other side of the line: Prakash Chand, Chris, Anil, Marilyn, Stephanie, Rachel, Nathan, June, Gray, Tom, Laurie, Will, and Hunter. As for Kanta, who travels between worlds, well, she knows what she does.

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