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Individuals: Lenore Langsdorf, Kirk M. Besmer, Aud Sissel Hoel, Annamaria Carusi, Marie-Christine Nizzi, Fernando Secomandi, Asle Kiran, Yoni Van Den Eede, Søren Riis, Frances Bottenberg, Chris Kaposy, Adam Rosenfeld, Jan Kyrre Berg O. Friis, Andrew Feenberg, Diane Michelfelder, Albert Borgmann

Postphenomenological Investigations: Essays on Human–Technology Relations offers an advent to the college of suggestion referred to as postphenomenology and showcases tasks on the leading edge of this attitude. Postphenomenology offers a distinct mixture of insights from the philosophical traditions of phenomenology and American pragmatism, and applies them to experiences of consumer kin to applied sciences. those reviews supply deep descriptions of the methods applied sciences rework our talents, increase our adventure, and form the realm round us. This e-book proceeds with a preface by means of Don Ihde, postphenomenology’s founder, and an in depth evaluation of the most principles of this angle through the editors Robert Rosenberger and Peter-Paul Verbeek. The physique of this quantity consists of twelve postphenomenological essays which mirror the expansive variety, detail-orientation, and interdisciplinarity of this college of concept. those essays confront a extensive collection of issues, either summary and urban. summary themes addressed comprise metaphysics, ethics, technique, and research of the notions of selfhood, ability education, velocity, and political activism. quite a few of the concrete issues studied comprise human-like interactive robots, ethics schooling, photograph interpretation in radiology, technology fiction tropes, transportation historical past, wearable computing, and organ donation protocols for brain-dead our bodies. the quantity concludes with confident reviews of postphenomenology by means of Andrew Feenberg, Diane Michelfelder, and Albert Borgmann, all figures whose paintings is suitable to postphenomenological projects.

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He writes, “Embodiment relations display an essential magnification/reduction structure which has been suggested in the instrumentation examples. Embodiment relations simultaneously magnify or amplify and reduce or place aside what is experienced through them” (Ihde, 1990, 76). That is, through the non-neutral transformations rendered to user experience through the mediation of a technology, we not only receive the desired change in our abilities, but always also receive other changes, some of them taking on the quality of “tradeoffs,” a decrease of a sense, or area of focus, or layer of context.

While not subscribing to the specifics of Gurwitsch’s account, Rosenberger argues that it is useful to attempt to articulate the ways that technological mediation reorganizes a user’s field of awareness—reorganizations that could involve more than only the device’s transparent withdraw. That is, it is useful to describe the specific ways a user’s overall field of awareness is composed by technological mediation. An example is a pair of binoculars. Not only is a user’s bodily perceptual capacity to see across a distance greatly transformed, and not only may the 24 Robert Rosenberger and Peter-Paul Verbeek binoculars themselves grow transparent in an accustomed user’s hands, but the user’s entire field of vision is altered.

Where the hammer provides an example of embodiment relations, we can also consider the relational strategies involved in hermeneutic relations. , Rosenberger 2011a; 2011b; 2013a). Such a hermeneutic strategy would involve the interpretive framework and the perceptual training that enables a user to read off a particular stability. For example, if a person can at first see only one stability of the Necker cube illusion, they may become able to see another stability after a friend relays an alternative her- 30 Robert Rosenberger and Peter-Paul Verbeek meneutic strategy.

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