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

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 moveme...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Eldred, Michael
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : De Gruyter, 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 phe.
Notas:6.2. Communication among digital beings themselves.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (140 pages)
ISBN:9783110319477
3110319470