Mobile Media Technologies and Poiēsis

Rediscovering How We Use Technology to Cultivate Meaning in a Nihilistic World

Justin Michael Battin

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9783319597966
• eBook ISBN: 9783319597973
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Media Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

This book intertwines phenomenological fieldwork with a wide range of Heidegger's writings to explore how our everyday uses of mobile media technologies permit a unique avenue to rediscover poi?sis, our creative cultivation that is simultaneously a bringing forth, a revealing. Shining a light on poi?sis better allows us to see how human beings are, at their core, dwellers that disclose worlds and cultivate meaning. In our chaotic modern world, our ability to appreciate this foundational feature of our existence seems to be fading from view. Such forgetting has fractured our confidence; we increasingly question, doubt, and struggle with what unfolds before us. This book thus argues that we ought to look towards our intimate and recursive mobile media practices as the avenue for which we can revitalize poi?sis, as doing so allows us a purview into how we are always situated in a meaningful locale, playing an imperative role in its continued cultivation.

Table of contents

• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Chapter 1 Introduction
• Chapter 2 Situating Heidegger for the Study of Mobile Media Technology Use
• Chapter 3 This Technology is a Part of Me
• Chapter 4 The Immaterial as Traversable
• Chapter 5 Our Relationship to the Technological Self
• Chapter 6 The Saving Power of Marginal Practices
• Index