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The Digital Cast of Being: Metaphysics, Mathematics, Cartesianism, Cybernetics, Capitalism, Communication

By Michael Eldred

Book information

Publisher
de Gruyter
Year
2009
ISBN
9783110319477, 9783110319132
DOI
10.1515/9783110319477
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
804 kB (823583 bytes)
Pages
137\140
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-07-26 04:32:50

Description

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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