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Bioinformational Philosophy and Postdigital Knowledge Ecologies (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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Bioinformational Philosophy and Postdigital Knowledge Ecologies (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Series: Postdigital Science and Education
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The book presents a cross-disciplinary overview of critical issues
at the intersections of biology, information, and society. Based on
theories of bioinformationalism, viral modernity, the postdigital
condition, and others, this book explores two inter-related
questions: Which new knowledge ecologies are emerging? Which
philosophies and research approaches do they require? The book
argues that the 20th century focus on machinery needs to be
replaced, at least partially, by a focus on a better understanding
of living systems and their interactions with technology at all
scales - from viruses, through to human beings, to the Earth's
ecosystem. This change of direction cannot be made by a simple
relocation of focus and/or funding from one discipline to another.
In our age of the Anthropocene, (human and planetary) biology
cannot be thought of without (digital) technology and society.
Today's curious bioinformational mix of blurred and messy
relationships between physics and biology, old and new media,
humanism and posthumanism, knowledge capitalism and
bio-informational capitalism defines the postdigital condition and
creates new knowledge ecologies. The book presents scholarly
research defining new knowledge ecologies built upon emerging forms
of scientific communication, big data deluge, and opacity of
algorithmic operations. Many of these developments can be
approached using the concept of viral modernity, which applies to
viral technologies, codes and ecosystems in information,
publishing, education, and emerging knowledge (journal) systems. It
is within these overlapping theories and contexts, that this book
explores new bioinformational philosophies and postdigital
knowledge ecologies.
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