This Critical Theory and Contemporary Society volume offers an
original analysis of the role of the digital in today's society. It
rearticulates critical theory by engaging it with the challenges of
the digital revolution to show how the digital is changing the ways in
which we lead our politics, societies, economies, media, and even
private lives. In particular, the work examines how the enlightenment
values embedded within the culture and materiality of digital
technology can be used to explain the changes that are occurring
across society. Critical Theory and the Digital draws from the
critical concepts developed by critical theorists to demonstrate how
the digital needs to be understood within a dialectic of potentially
democratizing and totalizing technical power. By relating critical
theory to aspects of a code-based digital world and the political
economy that it leads to, the book introduces the importance of the
digital code in the contemporary world to researchers in the field of
politics, sociology, globalization and media studies.
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ISBN
9781441173607
Publisert
2015
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Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
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Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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