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[ecrea] New book: Archaeologies of Touch

Mon Apr 16 09:52:09 GMT 2018





We would like to announce a new publication from University Of Minnesota Press, which we hope will be of interest.

*Archaeologies of Touch***

Interfacing with Haptics from Electricity to Computing

*David Parisi***

*_http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/archaeologies-of-touch <http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/archaeologies-of-touch  >_**__*

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"/Archaeologies of Touch/ weaves a careful history of haptic technology with a provocative analysis on the changing nature of how we recognize and measure touching. This allows David Parisi to provide the remarkable: a history of that which has always appeared just beyond our reach."*—Phillip Thurtle, University of Washington*

"/Archaeologies of Touch/ convincingly contextualizes recent forms of digital touch within an overarching history of psychophysiological and technological experimentation with the senses and sensory communication. David Parisi pulls together an impressive wealth of resources for scholars to understand how we ‘haptic subjects’ became haptic in the first place."*—Mark Paterson, author of /The Senses of Touch: Haptics, Affects and Technologies/*

Since the rise of radio and television, we have lived in an era defined increasingly by the electronic circulation of images and sounds. But the flood of new computing technologies known as haptic interfaces—which use electricity, vibration, and force feedback to stimulate the sense of touch—offering an alternative way of mediating and experiencing reality.

In /Archaeologies of Touch/, David Parisi offers the first full history of these increasingly vital technologies, showing how the efforts of scientists and engineers over the past three hundred years have gradually remade and redefined our sense of touch. Through lively analyses of electrical machines, videogames, sex toys, sensory substitution systems, robotics, and human–computer interfaces, Parisi shows how the materiality of touch technologies has been shaped by attempts to transform humans into more efficient processors of information.

With haptics becoming ever more central to emerging virtual-reality platforms (immersive bodysuits loaded with touch-stimulating actuators), wearable computers (haptic messaging systems like the Apple Watch’s Taptic Engine), and smartphones (vibrations that emulate the feel of buttons and onscreen objects), /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.

*David Parisi*is associate professor of emerging media at the College of Charleston.


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