{"product_id":"being-and-the-screen-isbn-9780262043168","title":"Being and the Screen","description":"\u003cb\u003eHow digital technology is profoundly renewing our sense of what is real and how we perceive.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eDigital 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 \u003ci\u003eBeing and the Screen\u003c\/i\u003e, Stéphane 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eA Short Treatise on Design\u003c\/i\u003e, Vial\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eoffers 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is published with the support of the University of Nîmes, France.\u003c\/p\u003eStéphane 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 \u003ci\u003eSciences du Design\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePatsy Baudoin works independently as a translator and developmental editor.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301803610341,"sku":"NP9780262043168","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262043168.jpg?v=1767722390","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/being-and-the-screen-isbn-9780262043168","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}