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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Table of contents; 1. Approaching the question concerning digital being; 2. Number and being; 2.1. Aristotle's ontology of number and geometric figure; 2.2. Heidegger's review of Aristotle's thinking on modes of connectedness from discreteness to continuity; 2.3. The crucially important analogy between logos and number for the appropriation of beings: arithmological knowledge; 2.4. Prelogical access to beings in their being; 2.5. The essentially 'illogical' nature of time; 2.6. Bridging the gulf between the discrete and the continuous.
- 2.7. Cartesian rules for an algebra of magnitudes in general as foundation for the modern mathematical sciences2.8. The calculative assault on movement and time through infinitesimal calculus; 2.9. Time and movement in Aristotle's thinking; 3. Digital beings; 3.1. The appropriation of the truth of beings, digital interpretation of world-movement and its outsourcing through executable, cyberneticmachine-code; 3.2. Digital beings arbitrarily reproducible in the electromagnetic medium; 3.3. Loss of place in and connectedness of the electromagnetic network.
- 3.4. The forgetting encouraged by digital code and automated cybernetic control in the robotic age3.5. The onto-theological nexus in abstract thinking, cybernetic control and arithmological access tomovement and time; 4. Spatiality of the electromagnetic medium; 4.1. A stampable mass; 4.2. Dasein's spatial being-in-the-world: approximation and orientation; 4.3. Abstraction from bodily experience in cyberspace through reduction of place to numeric co-ordinates; 4.4. Dreaming in cyberspace; 4.5. Inside and outside the digital electromagnetic medium.
- 4.6. Spatiality of Dasein with regard to the global electromagnetic medium4.7. The global network: geometric or purely arithmetic; 4.8. Difference between Aristotelean/Platonic and digital ontology and the latter's specifically totalizing nature
- Merely an oppressive over-presence of digital beings?; 5. Digital technology and capital; 5.1. Two exemplary industries at the forefront of the digitization of beings: telecommunications and banking; 5.2. Globalization driven from afar by the digital casting of being; 5.3. Does the essence of capital correspond to the essence of technology?
- 5.4. The casting of the totality of beings as valuable and capital as value power play5.5. Time in a capitalist economy; 5.6. The global power play measured by money-value and its movement; 5.7. Recovery of the three-dimensional, complexly interwoven social time of who-interplay; 5.8. Fetishism; 5.9. A capitalist economy is not merely complex, but simply ontologically playful; 5.10. The capitalist value-play an essential limitation to cybernetic technology; 5.11. Recapitulation: Digitization of the economy; 6. A global communication network?; 6.1. What is communication in a global network?