Skip to content

Booksellers & Trade Customers: Sign up for online bulk buying at trade.atlanticbooks.com for wholesale discounts

Booksellers: Create Account on our B2B Portal for wholesale discounts

Caring for the Machine Self: Psychology, Cybernetics, Humanistic Systems in Ergonomics

by Mark A. Martinez
Sold out
Current price ₹5,441.00
Original price ₹7,474.00
Original price ₹7,474.00
Original price ₹7,474.00
(-27%)
₹5,441.00
Current price ₹5,441.00

Imported Edition - Ships in 18-21 Days

Free Shipping in India on orders above Rs. 500

Request Bulk Quantity Quote
+91
Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781805240259
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Cerebrate
  • Publisher Imprint: Cerebrate
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 282
  • Original Price: GBP 64.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 381 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Educational Psychology, Cybernetics, and Psychotherapy / Humanistic

"We start with atomic parts, but these atomic parts have transitions, passages, 'tendencies, ' which circulate from one to another. These tendencies give rise to habits. Isn't this the answer to the question 'what are we?' We are habits, nothing but habits-the habit of saying 'I.' Perhaps, there is no more striking answer to the problem of the Self" (Gilles Deleuze). The above passage from Gilles Deleuze encapsulates the major ideas of my dissertation. He begins the problem of a "self" not with identity or body, but with its compositional nature. However, he also does not focus on these "atomic parts" as merely reductive identities constituting a self, but rather their relationships with one another. He wants to know first and foremost about the communicative aspects that work below the scale of the self. It is thus crucial that he selected the words, tendencies, and habits, both aspects of behavior that could be construed as non-conscious because they occur primarily at the level of affection, or a body's capacity to produce and be productive of change. My project is primarily concerned with how we affect and are affected by machines. Like the above passage, I am interested in the compositional parts that make up both human and machine identities, as well as how those parts connect the two across the divide of being a living human being vs. being a machine devoid of the qualities of life and humanity. The dissertation will discuss this human/machine binary as resting on a fundamental problematic of communication-namely an ability or inability to self-express or communicate an identity that puts a body on one side or the other of the binary.

Trusted for over 49 years

Family Owned Company

Secure Payment

All Major Credit Cards/Debit Cards/UPI & More Accepted

New & Authentic Products

India's Largest Distributor

Need Support?

Whatsapp Us