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

By Michael Eldred

Book information

Publisher
Ontos Verlag
Year
2009
ISBN
3868380450, 9783868380453
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
981 kB (1004744 bytes)
Edition
v 3.0 (2011)
Pages
215\215
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

We live 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. The book also includes an appendix that reinterprets quantum mechanical indeterminacy phenomenologically.

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