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Mark B.N. Hansen

James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Literature
Literature
Box 90670, Durham, NC 27708-0670
101 Friedl Building, Durham, NC 27708

Scholarly Works - Books


Neofinalism

Book · January 1, 2016 Although little known today, Raymond Ruyer was a post-World War II French philosopher whose works and ideas were significant influences on major thinkers, including Deleuze, Guattari, and Simondon. With the publication of this translation of Neofinalism, c ... Cite

Critical Terms for New Media

Book · 2010 Communications, philosophy, film and video, digital culture: media studies straddles an astounding array of fields and disciplines and produces a vocabulary that is in equal parts rigorous and intuitive. Critical Terms for Media Studies defines, and at tim ... Cite

Emergence and Embodiment: New Essays on Second-Order Systems Theory

Book · 2009 Emerging in the 1940s, the first cybernetics–the study of communication and control systems–was mainstreamed under the names Artificial Intelligence and computer science and taken up by the social sciences, the humanities, and the creative arts. In Emergen ... Cite

Bodies in code: Interfaces with digital media

Book · September 20, 2006 Bodies in Code explores how our bodies experience and adapt to digital environments. Cyberculture theorists have tended to overlook biological reality when talking about virtual reality, and Mark B. N. Hansen's book shows what they've been missing. Cybersp ... Full text Cite

The Cambridge companion to: Merleau-ponty

Book · January 1, 2004 Maurice Merleau-Ponty was described by Paul Ricoeur as "the greatest of the French phenomenologists." The new essays in this volume examine the full scope of Merleau-Ponty's philosophy, from his central and abiding concern with the nature of perception and ... Full text Cite