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Being and the Screen: How the Digital Changes Perception. Published in one volume with <i>A Short Treatise on Design</i> by Stéphane Vial (Associate Professor, University of Nîmes) at Abbey's Bookshop,
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Stéphane Vial (Associate Professor, University of Nîmes) Patsy Baudoin (Research Affiliate, MIT Libraries)

Being and the Screen

How the Digital Changes Perception. Published in one volume with A Short Treatise on Design...

Stéphane Vial (Associate Professor, University of Nîmes),  Patsy Baudoin (Research Affiliate, MIT Libraries)

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English
MIT Press
12 November 2019
Individual designers; Advertising & society
Series: Design Thinking, Design Theory
How digital technology is profoundly renewing our sense of what is real and how we perceive.

Digital technologies are not just tools; they are structures of perception. They determine the way in which the world appears to us. For nearly half a century, technology has provided us with perceptions coming from an unknown world. The digital beings that emerge from our screens and our interfaces disrupt the notion of what we experience as real, thereby leading us to relearn how to perceive. In Being and the Screen, Stephane Vial provides a philosophical analysis of technology in general, and of digital technologies in particular, that relies on the observation of experience (phenomenology) and the history of technology (epistemology). He explains that technology is no longer separate from ourselves-if it ever was. Rather, we are as much a part of the machine as the machine is part of us. Vial argues that the so-called difference between the real and the virtual does not exist and never has. We are living in a hybrid environment-which is both digital and nondigital, online and offline. With this book, Vial endows philosophical meaning to what we experience daily in our digital age.

In A Short Treatise on Design, Vial offers a concise introduction to the discipline of design-not a history book, but a book built of philosophical problems, developing a theory of the effect of design.

This book is published with the support of the University of N mes, France.
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Translated by:  
Imprint:   MIT Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 24mm
ISBN:   9780262043168
ISBN 10:   0262043165
Series:   Design Thinking, Design Theory
Pages:   280
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Stephane Vial is Professor at the School of Design at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM). He is the editor-in-chief of the French-language international journal Sciences du Design. Patsy Baudoin works independently as a translator and developmental editor.

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