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Contingency and Plasticity in Everyday Technologies (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,865
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Contingency and Plasticity in Everyday Technologies (Hardcover): Natasha Lushetich, Iain Campbell, Dominic Smith

Contingency and Plasticity in Everyday Technologies (Hardcover)

Natasha Lushetich, Iain Campbell, Dominic Smith

Series: Media Philosophy

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Technology is a host of social, material, and epistemic transformation techniques, tools, and methods. The common perception of digital technology today is that it is determined, even over-determined. This volume suggests a different view: the digital is indeterminate. Mobilising insights from philosophy, art and architecture theory, mathematics, computer science and anthropology, it situates digital indeterminacy within the wider context of material and immaterial processes, causations, triggerings, modes of unintended conditioning, and their performative working. Part I, Social-Digital Technologies juxtaposes arguments for machinic/algorithmic indeterminacy to those of (over)determination in blockchain, cognitive augmentation, and digital ideology. Part II Spatial, Temporal, Aural and Visual Technologies delves deeper into received ideas about non-digital technologies such as those used for building spatial structures, manufacturing instruments and constructing the visual space. Part III Epistemic Technologies analyses the use of plasticity in cognitive science, contingency in thinking habits, ontogenesis in experimental computing, and divination techniques with an inbuilt margin of indeterminacy. The book's tripartite structure reflects technology's inherent capacity to transform knowledges, practices, and 'the past'.

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Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of origin: United States
Series: Media Philosophy
Release date: November 2022
Editors: Natasha Lushetich • Iain Campbell • Dominic Smith
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 978-1-5381-7157-8
Categories: Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > History of ideas, intellectual history
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge
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LSN: 1-5381-7157-0
Barcode: 9781538171578

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