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Where Are You?: An Ontology of the Cell Phone

Where Are You?: An Ontology of the Cell Phone

Ferraris, Maurizio
Sanctis, Sarah de
Eco, Umberto

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Series: Commonalities

PhilosophyGeneral Reference

ISBN10: 0823256162
ISBN13: 9780823256167
Publisher: Fordham Univ Pr
Published: Sep 1 2014
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.59 Width: 6.01 Depth: 9.16
Language: English

This book sheds light on the most philosophically interesting of contemporary objects: the cell phone. Where are you?--a question asked over cell phones myriad times each day--is arguably the most philosophical question of our age, given the transformation of presence the cell phone has wrought in contemporary social life and public space.

Throughout all public spaces, cell phones are now a ubiquitous prosthesis of what Descartes and Hegel once considered the absolute tool: the hand. Their power comes in part from their ability to move about with us--they are like a computer, but we can carry them with us at all times--in part from what they attach to us (and how), as all that computational and connective power becomes both handy and hand-sized.

Quite surprisingly, despite their name, one might argue, as Ferraris does, that cell phones are not really all that good for sound and speaking. Instead, the main philosophical point of this book is that mobile phones have come into their own as writing machines--they function best for text messages, e-mail, and archives of all

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