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Machine Heart.
"Has the human capacity for thinking and feeling been captured by the machine? This is an issue that Franco Berardi Bifo identifies when he says that we have been learning words from the machine, not the mother, leading to a situation where language and affectivity have been separated. Extending this to intellectual and social behavior, he calls this state of affairs a catastrophe of modern humanism, where we no longer have sufficient attention spans for love, tenderness, and compassion. His concern is that we are becoming more and more distanced from affect through the ways in which it is rendered, using languages based on mathematical symbols and mediated through mobile devices that are locked into neoliberal markets with no interest in human feelings as such..."-- provided by distributor.
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- ISBN: 9783775730662
- Physical Description: 1 online resource.
- Publisher: [Place of publication not identified], Hatje Cantz, 2012.
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"Has the human capacity for thinking and feeling been captured by the machine? This is an issue that Franco Berardi Bifo identifies when he says that we have been learning words from the machine, not the mother, leading to a situation where language and affectivity have been separated. Extending this to intellectual and social behavior, he calls this state of affairs a catastrophe of modern humanism, where we no longer have sufficient attention spans for love, tenderness, and compassion. His concern is that we are becoming more and more distanced from affect through the ways in which it is rendered, using languages based on mathematical symbols and mediated through mobile devices that are locked into neoliberal markets with no interest in human feelings as such..."--