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

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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