Being-Together: Thinking through Technologically Mediated Sociality and Community
Our sociality is increasingly enacted through technology. This essay argues that the relationship between the technological mediation of social relations and the ways in which these practices are understood conceptually needs to be critiqued, rethought, and extended. Current approaches tend to accen...
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Taylor and Francis
2012
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| author | Willson, Michele |
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| description | Our sociality is increasingly enacted through technology. This essay argues that the relationship between the technological mediation of social relations and the ways in which these practices are understood conceptually needs to be critiqued, rethought, and extended. Current approaches tend to accentuate the individual to the detriment of the social and often to understand technology instrumentally. Jean-Luc Nancy's notion of being singular plural and his understanding of the relations between singular beings and of ecotechnics are discussed briefly to illustrate an alternate direction for considering ways of being-together in Western techno-society. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-437482017-09-13T15:58:24Z Being-Together: Thinking through Technologically Mediated Sociality and Community Willson, Michele Our sociality is increasingly enacted through technology. This essay argues that the relationship between the technological mediation of social relations and the ways in which these practices are understood conceptually needs to be critiqued, rethought, and extended. Current approaches tend to accentuate the individual to the detriment of the social and often to understand technology instrumentally. Jean-Luc Nancy's notion of being singular plural and his understanding of the relations between singular beings and of ecotechnics are discussed briefly to illustrate an alternate direction for considering ways of being-together in Western techno-society. 2012 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/43748 10.1080/14791420.2012.705007 Taylor and Francis restricted |
| spellingShingle | Willson, Michele Being-Together: Thinking through Technologically Mediated Sociality and Community |
| title | Being-Together: Thinking through Technologically Mediated Sociality and Community |
| title_full | Being-Together: Thinking through Technologically Mediated Sociality and Community |
| title_fullStr | Being-Together: Thinking through Technologically Mediated Sociality and Community |
| title_full_unstemmed | Being-Together: Thinking through Technologically Mediated Sociality and Community |
| title_short | Being-Together: Thinking through Technologically Mediated Sociality and Community |
| title_sort | being-together: thinking through technologically mediated sociality and community |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/43748 |