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_aGottlieb, Baruch, _d1966- _eauthor. |
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_aDigital materialism : _borigins, philosophies, prospects / _cBaruch Gottlieb. |
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_aBingley, U.K. : _bEmerald Publishing Limited, _c2018. |
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| 300 | _a1 online resource (ix, 199 pages). | ||
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| 490 | 0 | _aDigital activism and society: politics, economy and culture in network communication | |
| 500 | _aIncludes index. | ||
| 504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references. | ||
| 520 | _aDigital materiality (digimat) proposes a set of basic principles for how we understand the world through digital processes. Digital instruments may seem forbiddingly complex but they are based on simple mechanical principles which operate today on the subatomic scale, which creates challenges for conventional human epistemology. This short book sets out a methodical materialist understanding of digital technologies, where they come from, how they work, and what they do. This analysis starts from the classical materialism of the Greek physicist-philosophers, engages with the humanist and historical materialism of the flourishing of Enlightenment arts and sciences, and extrapolates from post-humanist new materialism informed by quantum physics. There can be no future without a present and that present is always, persistently material. Readers of this book must grapple with the mattering of digital material, especially the awe-inspiring epistemological schism between the infinitesimal, lightspeed reality of digital data and conventional, empirical human epistemologies which provide the vocabularies and cultural metaphors we must have recourse to in the attempt to discuss, communicate and decypher these phenomena. The obsolescent figure of anthropos (human being) will provide a central foil and subject for this challenge to understand our digital tools and their seemingly irrepressible reproduction. The future of humanity is at stake! | ||
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_aTechnology _xSocial aspects. |
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