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[ecrea] New Book: Archaeologies of Touch: Interfacing with Haptics from Electricity to Computing

Tue Feb 20 17:14:21 GMT 2018


New book /Archaeologies of Touch: Interfacing with Haptics from Electricity to Computing/ (University of Minnesota Press).

In the book, I provide a material history of touch interfaces, beginning with eighteenth century electric shock experiments, and concluding with an examination of the marketing campaigns around touchscreens, wearables, and cybersex devices. Methodologically, /AoT/ blends science studies approaches to the genesis of media systems with Cultural Studies formulations of sensory subject-formation. Full description below.

*ARCHAEOLOGIES OF TOUCH: Interfacing with Haptics from Electricity to Computing*

*A material history of haptic technology that raises new questions about the relationship between touch and media*

David Parisi offers the first full history of new computing technologies known as haptic interfaces—which use electricity, vibration, and force feedback to stimulate the sense of touch—showing how the efforts of scientists and engineers over the past 300 years have gradually remade and redefined our sense of touch. /Archaeologies of Touch/ offers a timely and provocative engagement with the long history of touch technology that helps us confront and question the power relations underpinning the project of giving touch its own set of technical media.

For more information, please visit the book's webpage: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/archaeologies-of-touch <https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.upress.umn.edu%2Fbook-division%2Fbooks%2Farchaeologies-of-touch&data=02%7C01%7C%7C5a8e683e3d7b43a0a29d08d57564e766%7Ce285d438dbba4a4c941c593ba422deac%7C0%7C0%7C636543998608345276&sdata=1hpvRjeliwpABDZwPTy%2BYtamydxGGkZk5Ul0XAOTwR8%3D&reserved=0>, or feel free to contact me (and use code MN82600 for 30% off orders through UMinn).


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