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--------------------------------------- LITERATE TECHNOLOGIES (LANGUAGE, COGNITION, TECHNICITY) by Louis Armand ISBN 80-7308-138-5 (paperback). 250pp. Publication date: October 2006 http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/lit_tech.html Price: Euro 12.00 (not including postage) Why is there consciousness and not nothing? What is the meaning of discourse? What would it mean if machines could think? It is a basic contention of the present volume that only on such a basis of generalised technology can we begin to approach the phenomenon of literacy in its broadest sense--as concerning any system of sign operations in which an event of transmission or transcription can be said to take place. This universalising of literacy bridges the entire field of discourse--from atomic and molecular structures to the transcriptive coding and decoding processes of DNA; from the evolving neural structures of the human brain to computing programmatics and artificial intelligence; from simple binary procedures to the most complex topologies. Consciousness, mind and cognition are in this way seen to be formal aspects of a signifying system, describing a LITERATE TECHNOLOGY. This volume treats the work of Walter Ong, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Norbert Wiener, Jacques Lacan, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Nicholas Rescher, Roman Jakobson, Alan Turing, Claude Levi-Strauss, Thomas Sebeok, Juri Lotman, Sigmund Freud and Claude Shannon. Louis Armand is director of the Intercultural Studies programme in the Philosophy Faculty of Charles University, Prague. His books include Solicitations: Essays on Criticism & Culture; Techne: James Joyce, Hypertext & Technology; and Incendiary Devices: Discourses of the Other. For more titles: http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/armand.html --------------------------------------- OTHER TITLES recently published by LPB: Avant-Post ed. Louis Armand ISBN 80-7308-123-7 (paperback) 300pp Publication date: September 2006 Price: Euro 12.00 (postage not included) http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/avant_post.html Global Ireland eds. Ondrej Pilný & Clare Wallace ISBN 80-7308-103-2 (paperback) 200pp Publication date: January 2006 Price: Euro 12.00 (postage not included) http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/global_ireland.html Giacomo Joyce: Envoys of the Other eds. Louis Armand & Clare Wallace ISBN 80-239-5046-0 (paperback) Revised, enlarged edition 360pp, includes index Publication date: June 2006 Price: Euro 17.00 (postage not included) http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/giacomo_joyce.html --------------------------------------- __________________________________________ Powered by Mach5 Mailer: http://mach5-mailer.com _______________________________________________ nettime-ann mailing list [email protected] http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ann
