Where Are You? : : An Ontology of the Cell Phone / / Maurizio Ferraris.
This book sheds light on the most philosophically interesting of contemporary objects: the cell phone. “Where are you?”—a question asked over cell phones myriad times each day—is arguably the most philosophical question of our age, given the transformation of presence the cell phone has wrought in c...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 |
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Commonalities
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- FOREWORD: TRUTH AND THE MOBILE PHONE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- TRANSLATOR’S NOTE
- INTRODUCTION: WHERE ARE YOU?
- Part I. PERÌ MAIL: THE PHARAOH’S MOBILE PHONE
- 1. SPEAKING
- 2. WRITING
- 3. RECORDING
- 4. CONSTRUCTING
- THE BOTTLE IMP
- Part II. SOCIAL OBJECTS: REALISM AND TEXTUALISM
- 5. STRONG REALISM
- 6. STRONG TEXTUALISM
- 7. WEAK REALISM
- 8. WEAK TEXTUALISM
- EPILOGUE
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- INDEX