Aden Evens Alexander R. The Digital and Its Di (Tapa dura) (PRESALE 11/03/2024)

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Título: The Digital and Its Discontents
Condición: Nuevo
Autor: Aden Evens, Alexander R. Galloway
Formato: Tapa dura
ISBN-10: 1517916313
EAN: 9781517916312
ISBN: 9781517916312
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Género: Society & Culture
Tema: Science Nature & Math
Fecha de publicación: 11/03/2024
Description:

A groundbreaking critique of the digital world that analyzes its universal technological foundations

 

Whence that nagging sense that something in the digital is amiss—that, as wonderful as our devices are, time spent on smartphones and computers leaves us sour, enervated, alienated? The Digital and Its Discontents uniquely explains that worry and points us toward a more satisfying relationship between our digital lives and our nondigital selves, one that requires a radical change in the way we incorporate technology into our lives.

 

Aden Evens analyzes universal technological principles—in particular, the binary logic—to show that they encourage certain ways of thinking while making others more challenging or impossible. What is out of reach for any digital machine is contingency, the ontological principle that refuses every rule. As humans engage ourselves and our world ever more through digital machines, we are losing touch with contingency and so banishing from our lives the accidental and unexpected that fuel our most creative and novel possibilities for living.

 

Taking cues from philosophy rather than cultural or media theory, Evens argues that the consequences of this erosion of contingency are significant yet often overlooked because the same values that make the digital seem so desirable also make contingency seem unimportant—without contingency the digital is confined to what has already been thought, and yet the digital’s ubiquity has allowed it to disguise this inherent sterility. Responsive only to desires that meet the demands of its narrow logic, the digital requires its users to practice those same ideological dictates, instituting a hegemony of thought and value sustained by the pervasive presence of digital mechanisms. Interweaving technical and philosophical concepts, The Digital and Its Discontents advances a powerful and urgent argument about the digital and its impact on our lives.

 

 

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Idioma: inglés
País/Región de fabricación: US
Altura del artículo: 216mm
Longitud del artículo: 140mm
Ancho del artículo: 19mm
Peso: 454g
Serie: Electronic Mediations
Año de publicación: 2024

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  • Condition: Nuevo
  • Title: The Digital and Its Discontents
  • Título: The Digital and Its Discontents
  • Autor: Alexander R. Galloway
  • Formato: Tapa dura
  • ISBN-10: 1517916313
  • EAN: 9781517916312
  • ISBN: 9781517916312
  • Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
  • Género: Society & Culture
  • Tema: Science Nature & Math
  • Fecha de publicación: 11/03/2024
  • Año de publicación: 2024
  • Idioma: inglés
  • País/Región de fabricación: US
  • Altura del artículo: 216mm
  • Longitud del artículo: 140mm
  • Ancho del artículo: 19mm
  • Peso: 454g
  • Serie: Electronic Mediations

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