On the Existence of Digital Objects (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
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Engelska
Antal sidor
336
Utgivningsdatum
2016-02-29
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University of Minnesota Press
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21
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213 x 137 x 23 mm
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409 g
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1
ISBN
9780816698912

On the Existence of Digital Objects

av Yuk Hui
Häftad,  Engelska, 2016-02-29
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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 todayas 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, Huis work develops an original, productive way of thinking about the data and metadata that increasingly define our world.
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"The object of this remarkable, groundbreaking book is as elegant as it is profoundto provide us with a radically objective account of the digital objects that populate our world, both on- and offline. On the Existence of Digital Objects is a truly innovative and philosophically grounded object oriented ontology that is designed for and can scale to the increasingly complex orders of magnitude confronted in the twenty-first century."David J. Gunkel, author of The Machine Question "Hui adeptly blends his technical training and philosophical knowledge to address a fundamental question: what is the relationship between technological and humanistic concerns?"Public Books "Hui unveils the political agenda of bringing society together where techniques can be re-inscribed in culture, conducted through a clear and documented essay."Neural "Huis project is remarkable for a conceptual engagement with twentieth-century philosophies of technology (Simondon, Heidegger, Husserl, Stiegler, Ellul) that pushes these theories further by confronting them with questions of the digital."Radical Philosophy

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Yuk Hui is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media in Leuphana University in Germany. Bernard Stiegler is head of the Institut de recherche et dinnovation of the Centre Pompidou.

Innehållsförteckning

Contents Foreword Bernard Stiegler Introduction: Outline of an Investigation on Digital Objects Part I. Objects 1. The Genesis of Digital Objects 2. Digital Objects and Ontologies Part II. Relations 3. The Space of Networks 4. The Time of Technical Systems Part III. Logics 5. Logic and Object 6. Logic and Time Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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