Distributed Perception by Natasha Lushetich

Distributed Perception by Natasha Lushetich

This transdisciplinary volume uses notions of resonance and axiology to analyse distributed perception in the form of geological, animal, bacterial, machinic and human co-perceptibilities. In so doing they show that distributed perception is an important for addressing the emergence, persistence, and development of human-animal-machine relations.

"What is perception? A presentation, as Husserl said? A bodily shaping, as Merleau-Ponty defined it? Or the mere illusion of reality, as Derrida affirmed? Neither, Lushetich and Campbell answerDelocalising perception from the scene of the human world, they show, through this extraordinary set of essays, that perception does not focus on objects but navigates between thresholds. Trans-materiality, trans-temporality, natural artificiality or biological mechanisms are currently deconstructing the deconstruction of presence itself. A major achievement."---Catherine Malabou, Kingston University, London

"Distributed Perception arrives just in time. Confusion is at a fever pitch about the technological qualities of perception and how natural and machine intelligence are inextricable from its cuts and continuities. This diverse collection provides multifaceted perspectives on what is at stake, what we know, what we don't know and what may have been forgotten."---Benjamin Bratton, University of California San Diego

"Distributed Perception is a truly imaginative and novel intervention into media studies of perception. A collection of some of the most innovative thinkers in digital media studies, the book creatively avoids reductive discourses concerning planetary scale computing and the denaturalization of human perception to ask a new set of questions. At stake in these many accounts is a fundamental investigation about how we produce and "feel" difference—in scales, in species, in social systems--and ultimately how we hope to construct our relationship to others and the world in the future."---Orit Halpern, Concordia University, Montreal

Natasha Lushetich is Professor of Contemporary Art and Theory at the University of Dundee and AHRC Fellow (2020 – 2021). Her research is interdisciplinary and focuses on intermedia; biopolitics and performativity; the status of sensory experience in cultural knowledge; hegemony and complexity. Her books include Fluxus: The Practice of Non-Duality (Rodopi 2014), Interdisciplinary Performance (Pagrave 2016), The Aesthetics of Necropolitics (Rowman and Littlefield 2018), Beyond Mind, a special issue of Symbolism (De Gruyter 2019) and Big Data – A New Medium? (Routledge 2020).

Iain Campbell is an interdisciplinary researcher based in Edinburgh. He is Postdoctoral Rsearch Associate on the AHRC project The Future of Indeterminacy: Datification, Memory, Bio-Politics at the University of Dundee. He has written on topics across philosophy, music, sound studies, and art theory for publications including parallax, Deleuze and Guattari Studies, Sound Studies, and Contemporary Music Review. He is an associate member of the Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy, and is part of the editorial board of Evental Aesthetics.

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ISBN 13	9780367743017
ISBN 10	0367743019
Title	Distributed Perception
Author	Natasha Lushetich
Series	Routledge Studies In Science Technology And Society
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Routledge
Year published	2021-12-30
Number of pages	304
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