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Logic of the Digital (Hardcover)
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Logic of the Digital (Hardcover)
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Building a foundational understanding of the digital, Logic of the
Digital reveals a unique digital ontology. Beginning from formal
and technical characteristics, especially the binary code at the
core of all digital technologies, Aden Evens traces the pathways
along which the digital domain of abstract logic encounters the
material, human world. How does a code using only 0s and 1s give
rise to the vast range of applications and information that
constitutes a great and growing portion of our world? Evens'
analysis shows how any encounter between the actual and the digital
must cross an ontological divide, a gap between the productive
materiality of the human world and the reductive abstraction of the
binary code. Logic of the Digital examines the distortions of this
ontological crossing, considering the formal abstraction that
persists in exemplary digital technologies and techniques such as
the mouse, the Web, the graphical user interface, and the
development of software. One crucial motive for this research lies
in the paradoxical issue of creativity in relation to digital
technologies: the ontology of abstraction leaves little room for
the unpredictable or accidental that is essential to creativity,
but digital technologies are nevertheless patently creative. Evens
inquires into the mechanisms by which the ostensibly sterile binary
code can lend itself to such fecund cultural production. Through
clarification of the digital's ontological foundation, Evens points
to a significant threat to creativity lurking in the nature of the
digital and so generates a basis for an ethics of digital practice.
Examining the bits that give the digital its ontology, exploring
the potentials and limitations of programming, and using gaming as
an ideal test of digital possibility, Logic of the Digital guides
future practices and shapes academic research in the digital.
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