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On the Existence of Digital Objects (Paperback)
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On the Existence of Digital Objects (Paperback)
Series: Electronic Mediations
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Digital objects, in their simplest form, are data. They are also a
new kind of industrial object that pervades every aspect of our
life today-as online videos, images, text files, e-mails, blog
posts, Facebook events.Yet, despite their ubiquity, the nature of
digital objects remains unclear. On the Existence of Digital
Objects conducts a philosophical examination of digital objects and
their organizing schema by creating a dialogue between Martin
Heidegger and Gilbert Simondon, which Yuk Hui contextualizes within
the history of computing. How can digital objects be understood
according to individualization and individuation? Hui pursues this
question through the history of ontology and the study of markup
languages and Web ontologies; he investigates the existential
structure of digital objects within their systems and milieux. With
this relational approach toward digital objects and technical
systems, the book addresses alienation, described by Simondon as
the consequence of mistakenly viewing technics in opposition to
culture. Interdisciplinary in philosophical and technical insights,
with close readings of Husserl, Heidegger, and Simondon as well as
the history of computing and the Web, Hui's work develops an
original, productive way of thinking about the data and metadata
that increasingly define our world.
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