An ambitious investigation of what lurks behind our humanity and our technology

DORSALITY: Thinking Back through Technology and Politics
David Wills
University of Minnesota Press | 280 pages | 2008
ISBN 978-0-8166-5346-1 | paperback | $67.50
ISBN 978-0-8166-5345-4 | hardcover | $22.50
Posthumanities Series, volume 5

In this highly original book David Wills rethinks not only our nature before all
technology but also what we understand to be technology. Rather than considering
the human being as something natural that then develops technology, Wills
argues, we should instead imagine an originary imbrication of nature and machine
that begins with a dorsal turn-a turn that takes place behind our back, outside
our field of vision.

"Dorsality is a fierce engagement with the question of technology, going far
behind where we usually see it emerge in the political and ethical dilemmas of
our age. Wills offers a highly original approach to contemporary debate
concerning the human and goes back into the whole space of the unknown and
unforeseen that constantly threatens to overtake our naively human perspective."
-Jean-Luc Nancy

"Today, when more and more people seem to believe that they must 'move forward'
at all costs, David Wills' Dorsality arrives just in time to provide a powerful
and badly needed reminder that what moves and concerns us is not necessarily
situated in our 45-degree frontal field of vision." -Samuel Weber

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