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 poisis , our creative cultivation that is simultaneously a bringing forth, a revealing. Shining a light on poisis 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 poisis , 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.

Moves discussions in the area from a focus on issues surrounding objects to an investigation on how individuals interact with objects themselves and the relationship that creates Applies Heidegger's inquiries to mobile media technology use through material drawing upon methodologies and thinking from anthropology, cultural geography, and phenomenological philosophy Explores how use of mobile media technologies, particularly for access to social media sites, can reveal fundamental aspects of what it means to be human in the western technological age, particularly with an eye towards community and the presentation of self Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext

Justin Michael Battin is Assistant Professor of English Cultures and Literatures at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. His research interests include media anthropology, the philosophy of technology, and Heidegger's phenomenology, all of which have culminated to provide the foundation for this book.

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- 2. Situating Heidegger for the Study of Mobile Media Technology Use.- 3. This Technology is a Part of Me.- 4. The Immaterial as Traversable.- 5. Our Relationship to the Technological Self.- 6. The Saving Power of marginal Practices.