Digital Technologies, Temporality, and the Politics of Co-Existence

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Our digital existence is hurried and fast. We are tied to the present, or perhaps we are not present enough: immersed in digital social media and processes by artificial intelligence, we are hardly present to ourselves and to others, and feel alienated from nature. We are also made to fear climate change and the end of humanity. How can we live a good life and give meaning to our lives under these conditions? How can and should we co-exist today? Using process philosophy, narrative theory, and the concept of technoperformances, this book analyzes how digital technologies shape our relation to time and our existence, and discusses what this means in the light of climate change and new technologies such as AI. In dialogue with contemporary philosophy of technology and media theory and asking original questions about finding common times in what it calls the “Anthropochrone”, it proposes a conceptual framework that helps us to understand how we (should) exist and relate to time today. Contents 1: Introduction: Time, Existence, and Technology References 2: Process, Narrative, and Performance: Conceptualizing How Digital Technologies Shape Temporality and Existence as Technoperformances of Time Process Narrative Performance Further Discussion: Multitemporality and Power References 3: In Search of Common Time in the Anthropochrone: Good Times, Contemporalization, and the Politics of Global Co-existence in Times of Climate Change Kairos: Good Times and Meaningful Existence Kairopolitics and Contemporalization: The Politics of Time and Co-existence in Times of Climate Change References Index