Perpetual contact and H Rosa's "Escalatory logic of dynamic stabilization"

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In 2004, James E. Katz and Mark Aakhus published Perpetual Contact: Mobile Communication, Private Talk, Public Performance (Cambridge) an application of a methodological theory they called Apparatgeist. This theory places people and what they are [...]doing as social beings front and center, combining empirical sociology with phenomenological and philosophical approaches. Yet there is currently a question about how the Katz-Aakhus methodological framework may or may not require comment, explication, updating and development in light of recent trends and philosophical reflection on methodological options. A current seminar taught in the BU Philosophy Department by Professor Juliet Floyd in conjunction with her and Katz’s participation in the 2016-18 BU Mellon Sawyer Seminar (www.mellonphilemerge.com) has focused on these questions about the theory using the slightly earlier anthology edited by Katz, Machines that Become Us: The Social Context of Communication Technology (2003, Transaction). Katz, Floyd and others gathered for the Day of Apparatgeist conference, Feb. 5, 2018 at Boston University.
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