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After the Last Man - Excurses to the Limits of the Technological System (Hardcover)
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After the Last Man - Excurses to the Limits of the Technological System (Hardcover)
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In this unique, enlightening monograph, Toivo Koivukoski explores
the circumstances that have led modern society to use the concept
of progress as a surrogate cosmology that gives individuals a sense
of place and purpose. By linking various historical paradigms from
German Idealist philosophy to contemporary philosophies of
technology, this work of political theory describes an alternative,
immanent pattern of development that is, in a sense, driven by its
own unintended consequences. The meditations outlined within this
book map out the hypertext pathways of our global system, making
its constitutive relations and underlying thought processes
transparent. Koivukoski mirrors the new hyper-realities of
electronic communications technologies by structuring the text in
compact subchapters that are linked through an index of subjects
that allows readers to "find their own philosophy" by jumping to
areas of interest. If, as he argues, history understood in a
linear, lockstep fashion is over, then the ways of developing
concepts should change respectively so that the sorts of
retrievals, anticipations, loops, and leaps that characterize
nonlinear, networked thinking are consciously realized in an
identity of form and substance.
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