Free book download for kindle Becoming Beside Ou

<i>Becoming Beside Ourselves </i>continues the investigation that the renowned cultural theorist and mathematician Brian Rotman began in his previous books <i>Signifying Nothing</i> and <i>Ad Infinitum...The Ghost in Turing’s Machine</i>: exploring certain signs and the conceptual innovations and subjectivities that they facilitate or foreclose. In <i>Becoming Beside Ourselves</i>, Rotman turns his attention to alphabetic writing or the inscription of spoken language. Contending that all media configure what they mediate, he maintains that alphabetic writing has long served as the West’s dominant cognitive technology. Its logic and limitations have shaped thought and affect from its inception until the present. Now its grip on Western consciousness is giving way to virtual technologies and networked media, which are reconfiguring human subjectivity just as alphabetic texts have done for millennia.Alphabetic texts do not convey the bodily gestures of human speech: the hesitations, silen