Overview
Explores the ambivalent workings of technocapitalism and humanism in urban spaces
Challenges the anthropocentrism of bio-politics and neoliberalism
Expresses the constitutive potential of an eco-sensible ‘new earth
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This collection stages a dynamic scholarly debate about the ambivalent workings of technocapitalism and humanism in urban spaces. Such workings are intended to provide multiple forms of autonomy and empowerment but instead create intolerable contradictions that are experienced in the form of a slavish adherence to machines. Representing the novelty of a post-anthropocentric grammar, this book points towards a new ethical and political praxis. It challenges the anthropocentrism of bio-politics and neoliberalism in order to express the constitutive potential of an eco-sensible ‘new earth’.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Saswat S. Das is an Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. He is the co-author of Taking Place of Language (2013) and the co-editor of Deleuze, Guattari and the Global Pandemics (forthcoming). His book reviews are regularly published in Postcolonial Studies, South Central Review, Cultural Politics, French Studies, and Philosophy in Review.
Dr. Ananya Roy Pratihar is Assistant Professor in Communication Studies at the Institute of Management and Information Science, Bhubaneswar, India. She is the co-editor of Deleuze, Guattari and the Global Pandemics (forthcoming). Her book reviews and articles are published in Philosophy in Review and Exchanges.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Technology, Urban Space and the Networked Community
Editors: Saswat Samay Das, Ananya Roy Pratihar
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88809-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-88808-4Published: 09 January 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-88811-4Published: 10 January 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-88809-1Published: 08 January 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 311
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of Technology, Philosophy of the Social Sciences