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Contents
Preface. Interrupting the Networked Body
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Haptic Interfaces and the Quest to Reinscribe
Tactility
Interface 1. The Electrotactile Machine
Interface 2. The Haptic
Interface 3. The Tongue of the Skin
Interface 4. Human–Machine Tactile Communication
Interface 5. The Cultural Construction of Technologized Touch
Coda. Haptics and the Reordering of the Mediated Sensorium
Notes
Index
David Parisi is associate professor of emerging media at the
College of Charleston.
"Archaeologies of Touch weaves a careful history of haptic
technology with a provocative analysis on the changing nature of
how we recognize and measure touching. This allows David Parisi to
provide the remarkable: a history of that which has always appeared
just beyond our reach."—Phillip Thurtle, University of
Washington"Archaeologies of Touch convincingly contextualizes
recent forms of digital touch within an overarching history of
psychophysiological and technological experimentation with the
senses and sensory communication. David Parisi pulls together an
impressive wealth of resources for scholars to understand how we
‘haptic subjects’ became haptic in the first place."—Mark Paterson,
author of The Senses of Touch: Haptics, Affects and
Technologies
"Parisi provides an engaging history of how humans have interacted
with a range of electric and electronic technologies to understand
and explore how the sensation of touch actually works, and how it
can be simulated. The book effectively highlights the need for more
critical analysis of haptic technology and its future. The book is
exhaustively researched and includes useful explanatory notes and
images."—CHOICE"Archaeologies of Touch is a fascinating reading
about spectacular experiments, forgotten appliances and scientists
who have partially come to the fore."—Svenska
Dagbladet"Archaeologies of Touch is a significant achievement in
media research. It is lucid, scrupulous, rigorously grounded, and
exceedingly informed without ever getting mired in high theory or
inconsequential historical asides."—Lateral: Journal of the
Cultural Studies Association"Archaeologies of Touch is a work of
deep erudition and study, carefully plotted, and written with
penetrating insight, establishing Parisi at the vanguard of the
developing field of haptic media studies."—Media Theory"This is a
remarkable book, solidly documented and will potentially enlighten
a vast number of people working with cultural and social
technologies."—Neural"Filled with archival illustrations,
schematics, and images of the various lesser known technologies and
experimental research that demonstrate the long history of research
of touch, Parisi’s Archaeologies of Touch is vital read for
scholars concerned with all things haptic."—New Media and
Society"In thoroughly tracing the connections between touch and
technoscience, Parisi offers a powerful and timely argument that
encourages a serious reconsideration of touch's
technogenesis."—Configurations"Archaeologies of Touch is an
ambitious book chock-full of fascinating experiments and
anecdotes."—Technology and Culture
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