iPod and philosophy
By: edited by D.E. Wittkower.
Contributors: Wittkower, D. E., 1977-
Series: Popular culture and philosophy -- v. 34
Publisher: Open Court
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780812696516
Subjects: iPod (Digital music player) -- Social aspects; Digital music players -- Social aspects; Music -- Social aspects
Description: "Essays examine philosophical aspects of the iPod portable audio player, focusing on its status as a cultural icon and object with many meanings"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What do we hear when we listen to our iPods? / D. E. Wittkower; title: Wittgenstein's iPod, or, the familiar among us / Alf Rehn; title: The moment of the blobject has passed / Francis Raven; title: Don't delete these memories : the iPod and materiality / Andrew Wells Garnar; title: Alive and clicking : reification and the political economy of iPods / Peter D. Schaefer; title: Philosophy audiobooks? / Librivox Volunteers; title: Philosophy by iPod : wisdom to the people / Scott F. Parker; title: Today's cheaters, tomorrow's visionaries : iPods in education / Daniel Sturgis; title: iPod therefore I am : Heidegger, homelessness, and the flight from thinking / Craig Condella; title: The unbeatable whiteness of the iPod / Jon Austin; title: Icon of a generation / Andrew Hickey; title: You are your iPod! / Delia Dumitrica; title: Listening with the other, listening to the other / Donald L. Turner; title: Don't talk to me / Joseph C. Pitt; title: Mobile clubbing : iPod, solitude and community / Rudd Kaulingredks and Samantha Warren; title: The shins really will change your life / Matthew Dewey; title: Quantitative and qualitative change / Ivox Volunteers; title: Podcrastination / Regina Arnold; title: Is the podcast a public sphere institution? / Marc Lombardo; title: The Rhodesian stranger / Socrates, Phaedrus, and Stranger.