Digital Cast of Being Metaphysics, Mathematics, Cartesianism, Cybernetics, Capitalism, Communication
Innbundet /
2009
/ Engelsk
Product details
ISBN
9783110319132
Published
2009-06-24
Publisher
De Gruyter
Weight
389 gr
Height
210 mm
Width
148 mm
Age
P, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
137
Author
We live today surrounded by countless digital gadgets and navigate through cyberspace as if it were the most natural thing in the world. This digital cast of being, however, comes from a long history of philosophical and mathematical thinking in which the Western will to productive power over movement has attained its consummation. This study traces the digital dissolution of beings from the Pythagoreans, Plato and Aristotle's ontology via Cartesian mathematical science through to our digitized economy and telecommunications. With an appendix reinterpreting quantum mechanical indeterminacy phenomenologically.
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We live today surrounded by countless digital gadgets and navigate through cyberspace as if it were the most natural thing in the world. This title traces the digital dissolution of beings from the Pythagoreans, Plato and Aristotle's ontology via Cartesian mathematical science through to our digitized economy and telecommunications.
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Product details
ISBN
9783110319132
Published
2009-06-24
Publisher
De Gruyter
Weight
389 gr
Height
210 mm
Width
148 mm
Age
P, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
137
Author