May 2018 Academic & Specialist University of Minnesota Press

Archaeologies of Touch: Interfacing with Haptics from Electricity to Computing David Parisi


Paperback | May 2018 | University of Minnesota Press | 9781517900595 | 472pp | 216x140mm | RFB | AUD$39.99, NZD$47.99

David Parisi offers the first full history of new computing technologies known as haptic interfaces—which use electricity, vibration, and force feedback to stimulate the sense of touch—showing how the efforts of scientists and engineers over the past 300 years have gradually remade and redefined our sense of touch. Archaeologies of Touch offers a timely and provocative engagement with the long history of touch technology that helps us confront and question the power relations underpinning the project of giving touch its own set of technical media.