Malleable, digital, and posthuman : a permanently beta life

The world we live in is increasingly malleable and fluid, especially in regards to being human - rendering the self into a permanent beta version, co-constituted within agglomerations of platforms, devices, physical infrastructures, entities pertaining to physical and biological nature. This book pr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Kalpokas, Ignas (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781801176224
DOI10.1108/9781801176200
Physical Description1 online resource (169 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. The malleable environment: attention, sensing, and wrapping
  • Chapter 2. The malleable self: immersion, self-optimisation, and gamification
  • Chapter 3. The malleable political: ascription, shareability, and ventriloquism
  • Chapter 4. The posthuman: false centrism, flat ontology, and immersive methodology.