Technology and touch
Subtitle: the biopolitics of emerging technologies
By: Anne Cranny-Francis, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9781137268303
Subjects: Technological innovations; Social aspects; Touch; Biopolitics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Touch : an embodied, social and cultural practice; title: Technologies : their role in our everyday lives; title: Technologies of touch; title: Eye feel : visuality and touch; title: Good vibrations : touch, sound and movement; title: Technologies that we touch; title: Mouse, screen and console : the capabilities and ethics of touch-enabled technologies; title: From phantom to haptic cow : technologies that touch back; title: Technologies that touch us; title: Smart textiles : clothing makes the (hu)man; title: Prosthetics & robots : marking the borders of human-technology interaction; title: Conclusion.