[ecrea] new book: The Point of Being

The Point of Being
Editor(s): Derrick de Kerckhove, Cristina Miranda de Almeida
Book Description

Current digital processes of production, reproduction and distribution 
of information affect the perception of time, space, matter, senses and 
identity. This book explores the research question: what are the 
psycho-physiological dimensions of the ways people experience their 
presence in the world and the world’s presence in them? Because they 
deal principally with issues of perception and sentience, with a 
particular emphasis on art, there is in all chapters an invitation to 
experience a shift of perception. An embodied sensation of the world and 
a re-sensorialization of the environment are described to complement the 
visually-biased perspective with a renewed sense of humans’ relationship 
to their spatial and material surrounding. As such, this book presents 
the topological reunion of sensation and cognition, of sense and 
sensibility and of body, self and world. The perception of the “Point of 
Being”, to which the various chapters of this book invite the reader, 
proposes an alternative to the “Point of View” inherited from the 
Renaissance; it offers a way to situate the sense of self through the 
physical, digital and electronic domains that shape physical, social, 
cultural, economic and spiritual conditions at the beginning of the 
twenty-first century.
Biography (co-editors)

Derrick de Kerckhove is Emeritus Professor of the Department of French, 
University of Toronto, and Professor of the Faculty of Sociology, 
University Federico II, Naples. He is former Director of the McLuhan 
Program in Culture and Technology (MPCT) and of the Research Programme 
in Digital Culture, at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute, 
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (IN3/UOC), in Barcelona. Professor de 
Kerckhove received PhDs in French Language and Literature from the 
University of Toronto in 1975 and in Sociology of Art from the 
University of Tours in 1979. He worked as translator and co-author with 
Marshall McLuhan, and holds the Order of “Les Palmes Académiques”, is a 
Member of the Club of Rome and is Papamarkou Chair in Technology and 
Education at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Cristina Miranda 
de Almeida is Lecturer at the Department of Art and Technology, 
University of the Basque Country and a Visiting Scholar and external 
researcher at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3/UOC), 
Barcelona. She holds a European PhD in Art (UPV/EHU, 2005). She spent 
post-doctoral research periods at the École Nationale Superieur des 
Beaux-Arts, Paris (2009), at the McLuhan Program of Culture and 
Technology, Toronto (2007) and at the CaiiA-Hub-Planetary Collegium, 
University of Plymouth (2005–06), and was a pre-doctoral researcher at 
Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze (2005). She collaborates with the 
International Journal of McLuhan Studies, NoemaLab and Ausart. Her 
practice-based art research (video installations, photography, 
performances) focuses on the cultural construction of identity and has 
been internationally exhibited.
Contributors:

Derrick de Kerckhove, Cristina Miranda de Almeida, Semi Ryu, Nino 
Mirabella, Rosane Araujo, Isabelle Choinière, Jung A, Maria Luisa 
Malerba and Loretta Secchi.
Hardback
ISBN-13: 978-1-4438-6038-3
ISBN-10: 1-4438-6038-7
Date of Publication: 01/08/2014

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