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Digital Materialism - Origins, Philosophies, Prospects (Paperback)
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Digital Materialism - Origins, Philosophies, Prospects (Paperback)
Series: Digital Activism And Society: Politics, Economy And Culture In Network Communication
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Digital 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, creating 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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