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Callous Objects

Designs against the Homeless

by Robert Rosenberger ...

Series series Forerunners: Ideas First
Uncovering injustices built into our everyday surroundingsCallous Objects unearths cases in which cities push homeless people out of public spaces through a combination of policy and strategic design. Robert Rosenberger examines such commonplace devices as garbage cans, fences, signage, and benches—all of which reveal political agendas beneath the surface. Such objects have evolved, through a ... Read more

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Uncovering injustices built into our everyday surroundingsCallous Objects unearths cases in which cities push homeless people out of public spaces through a combination of policy and strategic design. Robert Rosenberger examines such commonplace devices as garbage cans, fences, signage, and benches—all of which reveal political agendas beneath the surface. Such objects have evolved, through a
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Distracted

A Philosophy of Cars and Phones

by Robert Rosenberger ...

Applying insights from philosophy and cognitive science to address the urgent issue of smartphone-induced distracted drivingAlthough the dangers of texting while driving are widely known, many people resist the idea that phone usage will impair their driving. And connectivity features in new cars have only made using technology behind the wheel more tempting. What will it take to change people’s ... Read more

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Applying insights from philosophy and cognitive science to address the urgent issue of smartphone-induced distracted drivingAlthough the dangers of texting while driving are widely known, many people resist the idea that phone usage will impair their driving. And connectivity features in new cars have only made using technology behind the wheel more tempting. What will it take to change people’s
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Against Frog Dissection

The Materiality Argument

by Robert Rosenberger ...

Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
This open access book offers a provocative critique of the widespread classroom practice of frog dissection. Drawing from philosophy of technology and Science & Technology Studies (STS), Robert Rosenberger challenges the entrenched “dissection paradigm” that frames frog dissection as merely a hands-on encounter with nature and an educational ideal. He argues instead that the dead frog should be ... Read more

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This open access book offers a provocative critique of the widespread classroom practice of frog dissection. Drawing from philosophy of technology and Science & Technology Studies (STS), Robert Rosenberger challenges the entrenched “dissection paradigm” that frames frog dissection as merely a hands-on encounter with nature and an educational ideal. He argues instead that the dead frog should be
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Distracted

A Philosophy of Cars and Phones

by Robert Rosenberger ...

Narrated by Jonathan Yen ...

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10 hours 36 min

Although the dangers of texting while driving are widely known, many people resist the idea that phone usage will impair their driving. And connectivity features in new cars have only made using technology behind the wheel more tempting. What will it take to change people's minds and behavior? Robert Rosenberger contends that a better understanding of why this combination of technologies is so ... Read more

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Although the dangers of texting while driving are widely known, many people resist the idea that phone usage will impair their driving. And connectivity features in new cars have only made using technology behind the wheel more tempting. What will it take to change people's minds and behavior? Robert Rosenberger contends that a better understanding of why this combination of technologies is so
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This Is Not Civilization

A Novel

by Robert Rosenberg ...

Hopscotching from Arizona to Central Asia to Istanbul, this inspired debut novel is "a vibrant mix of the serious and the absurd" ( Publishers Weekly).In the aftermath of the Soviet Union's collapse, Anarbek Tashtanaliev singlehandedly supports his small village in Kyrgyzstan, despite struggles at his cheese factory and a ruthless blackmailer. In the canyons of Arizona, Adam Dale's basketball ... Read more

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Hopscotching from Arizona to Central Asia to Istanbul, this inspired debut novel is "a vibrant mix of the serious and the absurd" ( Publishers Weekly).In the aftermath of the Soviet Union's collapse, Anarbek Tashtanaliev singlehandedly supports his small village in Kyrgyzstan, despite struggles at his cheese factory and a ruthless blackmailer. In the canyons of Arizona, Adam Dale's basketball
... Read more
An Accidental Murder

An Avram Cohen Mystery

by Robert Rosenberg ...

“Of all his many regrets, it was his decision to write his memories that Avram Cohen now regretted the most”Thus begins An Accidental Murder, the latest book in Robert Rosenberg’s acclaimed Avram Cohen mystery series. In a tale that takes the retired Jerusalem detective from Germany’s Frankfurt book fair to the Negev desert, as he searches for a murderer in Germany and ends up in the dark ... Read more

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“Of all his many regrets, it was his decision to write his memories that Avram Cohen now regretted the most”Thus begins An Accidental Murder, the latest book in Robert Rosenberg’s acclaimed Avram Cohen mystery series. In a tale that takes the retired Jerusalem detective from Germany’s Frankfurt book fair to the Negev desert, as he searches for a murderer in Germany and ends up in the dark
... Read more
Postphenomenology and Technologies within Educational Settings

by Jesper Aagaard, Håkon Jakobsen Aaltvedt, Jan Peter Bergen, André Epp, Kristy Forrest, Lesley Gourlay, Stacey Irwin, Annie Kurz, Ilya Levin, Dan Mamlok, Anne Pesch, Anke Redecker, Eliott Rooke, Robert Rosenberger, Tomoki Sakata, Andreas Stock, Joris Vlieghe, Galit Wellner, Martin Wilmer, Sou Hee Yang ...

Series series Postphenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology
Technologies such as tablets, plagiarism software, and learning videos are now an important part of teaching and learning around the world. The underlying human-technology relations that shape modern educational settings have a decisive influence on what education is and will be in the future.This volume applies the analytical tools of postphenomenology to the context of education. In three ... Read more

$109.39 USD

Technologies such as tablets, plagiarism software, and learning videos are now an important part of teaching and learning around the world. The underlying human-technology relations that shape modern educational settings have a decisive influence on what education is and will be in the future.This volume applies the analytical tools of postphenomenology to the context of education. In three
... Read more
Technoscience and Postphenomenology

The Manhattan Papers

by Lars Botin, Anette Forss, Michael Funk, Cathrine Hasse, Stacy O. Irwin, Roisin Lally, Srikanth Mallavarapu, Eduardo Mendieta, Junichi Murata, Shoji Nagataki, Kyle Powys Whyte, Robert Rosenberger, Peter-Paul Verbeek, Galit Wellner, Evan Selinger, Robert C. Scharff, Shannon Vallor ...

Series series Postphenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology
Friis and Crease capture Postphenomenology, a new field that has attracted attention among scholars engaged in technology studies. Contributors to this edited collection seek to analyze, clarify, and develop postphenomenological language and concepts, expand the work of Don Ihde, the field's founder, and scout into fields that Ihde never tackled.Many of the contributors to this collection had ... Read more

$105.29 USD

Friis and Crease capture Postphenomenology, a new field that has attracted attention among scholars engaged in technology studies. Contributors to this edited collection seek to analyze, clarify, and develop postphenomenological language and concepts, expand the work of Don Ihde, the field's founder, and scout into fields that Ihde never tackled.Many of the contributors to this collection had
... Read more
Postphenomenological Methodologies

New Ways in Mediating Techno-Human Relationships

by Jesper Aagaard, Jessica Sorenson, Oliver Tafdrup, Ciano Aydin, Lasse Blond, Michael Funk, Moa Petersén, Michel Puech0, Tobias Röhl1, Robert Rosenberger2, Kasper Schiølin3, Fernando Secomandi4, Arun Kumar Tripathi5, Joni Turville6, Catherine Adams8, Jan Kyrre Berg Friis9, Cathrine Hasse1 ...

Series series Postphenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology
This edited volume is the first publication to tackle the issue of researching human-technology relations from a methodological postphenomenological perspective. While the ‘traditional’ phenomenology of the 20th century, with figures like Husserl, Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, provided valuable insights into the formal structures of essence, being and embodiment, etc. their mode of philosophizing ... Read more

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This edited volume is the first publication to tackle the issue of researching human-technology relations from a methodological postphenomenological perspective. While the ‘traditional’ phenomenology of the 20th century, with figures like Husserl, Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, provided valuable insights into the formal structures of essence, being and embodiment, etc. their mode of philosophizing
... Read more
Postphenomenology and Architecture

Human Technology Relations in the Built Environment

by Lars Botin, Inger Berling Hyams, Charley Appleton, Ditte Bendix Lanng, Søren Risdal Borg, Adrian Carter, Natalia Juchniewicz, Anders Michelsen, Robert Rosenberger0, Søren Riis1, Don Ihde2 ...

Series series Postphenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology
Architecture and urban design are typically considered as a result of artistic creativity performed by gifted individuals. Postphenomenology and Architecture: Human Technology Relations in the Built Environment analyzes buildings and cities instead as technologies. Informed by a postphenomenological perspective, this book argues that buildings and the furniture of cities—like bike lanes, benches, ... Read more

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Architecture and urban design are typically considered as a result of artistic creativity performed by gifted individuals. Postphenomenology and Architecture: Human Technology Relations in the Built Environment analyzes buildings and cities instead as technologies. Informed by a postphenomenological perspective, this book argues that buildings and the furniture of cities—like bike lanes, benches,
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Postphenomenology and Media

Essays on Human–Media–World Relations

by Stacey O'Neal Irwin, Galit Wellner, Lars Botin, Pieter Lemmens, Nicola Liberati, Shoji Nagataki, Robert Rosenberger, Fernando Secomandi, Robert N. Spicer0, Daniel Susser1, Heather Wiltse2, Yoni Van Den Eede4 ...

Series series Postphenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology
Postphenomenology and Media: Essays on Human–Media–World Relations sheds light on how new, digital media are shaping humans and their world. It does so by using the postphenomenological framework to comprehensively study “human-media relations,” making use of conceptual instruments such as the transparency-opacity distinction, embodiment, multistability, variational analysis, and cultural ... Read more

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Postphenomenology and Media: Essays on Human–Media–World Relations sheds light on how new, digital media are shaping humans and their world. It does so by using the postphenomenological framework to comprehensively study “human-media relations,” making use of conceptual instruments such as the transparency-opacity distinction, embodiment, multistability, variational analysis, and cultural
... Read more
Postphenomenology and Imaging

How to Read Technology

by Samantha J. Fried, Robert Rosenberger, Bas de Boer, Anette Forss, Cathrine Hasse, Stacey O. Irwin, Lisa Messeri, David Ribes, Will Sutherland0, Janet Vertesi1, Katie Warfield2, Don Ihde3, Robert P. Crease4, Jan Kyrre Berg Friis5 ...

Series series Postphenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology
How should we understand the experience of encountering and interpreting images? What are their roles in science and medicine? How do they shape everyday life? Postphenomenology and Imaging: How to Read Technology brings together scholars from multiple disciplines to investigate these questions. The contributors make use of the “postphenomenological” philosophical perspective, applying its ... Read more

$109.39 USD

How should we understand the experience of encountering and interpreting images? What are their roles in science and medicine? How do they shape everyday life? Postphenomenology and Imaging: How to Read Technology brings together scholars from multiple disciplines to investigate these questions. The contributors make use of the “postphenomenological” philosophical perspective, applying its
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