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Posthuman Buddhism and the Digital Self Les Roberts

Posthuman Buddhism and the Digital Self By Les Roberts

Posthuman Buddhism and the Digital Self by Les Roberts


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Posthuman Buddhism and the Digital Self lays the groundwork for the concept of dwellspace as a means by which to unpick the shifting spatial, temporal and experiential modalities of everyday mediascapes.

Posthuman Buddhism and the Digital Self Summary

Posthuman Buddhism and the Digital Self: The Production of Dwellspace by Les Roberts

In Posthuman Buddhism and the Digital Self, Les Roberts extends his earlier work on spatial anthropology to consider questions of time, spaciousness and the phenomenology of self. Across the books four main chapters which range from David Bowies long-standing interest in Buddhism, to street photography of 1980s Liverpool, to the ambient soundscapes of Derek Jarmans Blue, or to the slow, contemplative cinema of Tsai Ming-Liang Roberts lays the groundwork for the concept of dwellspace as a means by which to unpick the shifting spatial, temporal and experiential modalities of everyday mediascapes. Understood as a particular disposition towards time, Robertss foray into dwellspace proceeds from a Pascalian reflection on the self/non-self in which being content in an empty room vies with the demands of having content in an empty room. Taking the idea of posthuman Buddhism as a heuristic lens, Roberts sets in motion a number of interrelated lines of enquiry that prompt renewed focus on questions of boredom, distraction and reverie and cast into sharper relief the psychosocial and creative affordances of ambience, spaciousness and slowness. The book argues that the colonisation of empty time by 24/7 digital capitalism has gone hand-in-hand with the growth of the corporate mindfulness industry, and with it, the co-option, commodification and digitisation of dwellspace. Posthuman Buddhism is thus in part an exploration of the dialectics of dwellspace that orbits around a creative self-praxis rooted in the negation and dissolution of the self, one of the foundational cornerstones of Buddhist theory and practice.

Posthuman Buddhism and the Digital Self Reviews

Through a series of fascinating case studies, Les Roberts explores what it means to be an emplaced and embodied human being in a digital, mediated age. His book is full of both vivid, concrete examples and suggestive theoretical interventions. It takes the study of the everyday into new, exciting areas. - Joe Moran, Liverpool John Moores University, UK

About Les Roberts

Les Roberts is a Reader in Cultural and Media Studies at the University of Liverpool, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction: In Search of Spaciousness; 1. Dwelling in the Space of the Self: Home, Extensionality, Memory; 2. The Lama, the Changeling and the Wardrobe: Bowie, Buddhism, Transitional Space; 3. Wherever You Go, There You Are Wired: Empty Time, Boredom, Liminality; 4. Streaming the Mindstream: Ambience, Slowness, Spaciousness; Conclusion: The Production of Dwellspace

Additional information

NPB9780367147785
9780367147785
0367147785
Posthuman Buddhism and the Digital Self: The Production of Dwellspace by Les Roberts
New
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2023-09-20
160
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