Being and the Screen(English, Hardcover, Vial Stephane)

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Being and the Screen(English, Hardcover, Vial Stephane) is written by Vial Stephane and published by MIT Press Ltd. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0262043165 (ISBN 10) and 9780262043168 (ISBN 13).

How digital technology is profoundly renewing our sense of what is real and how we perceive. Digital technologies are not just tools; they are structures of perception. They determine the way in which the world appears to us. For nearly half a century, technology has provided us with perceptions coming from an unknown world. The digital beings that emerge from our screens and our interfaces disrupt the notion of what we experience as real, thereby leading us to relearn how to perceive. In Being and the Screen, Stephane Vial provides a philosophical analysis of technology in general, and of digital technologies in particular, that relies on the observation of experience (phenomenology) and the history of technology (epistemology). He explains that technology is no longer separate from ourselves-if it ever was. Rather, we are as much a part of the machine as the machine is part of us. Vial argues that the so-called difference between the real and the virtual does not exist and never has. We are living in a hybrid environment-which is both digital and nondigital, online and offline. With this book, Vial endows philosophical meaning to what we experience daily in our digital age. In A Short Treatise on Design, Vialoffers a concise introduction to the discipline of design-not a history book, but a book built of philosophical problems, developing a theory of the effect of design. This book is published with the support of the University of Nimes, France.