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Love and Other Technologies: Retrofitting Eros for the Information Age
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Love and Other Technologies: Retrofitting Eros for the Information AgeLove and Other Technologies: Retrofitting Eros for the Information Age

Can love really be considered another form of technology?
Dominic Pettman says it can—although not before carefully redefining technology as a cultural challenge to what we mean by the "human" in the information age. Using the writings of such important thinkers as Giorgio Agamben, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Bernard Stiegler as a springboard, Pettman explores the "techtonic" movements of contemporary culture, specifically in relation to the language of eros. 
 
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