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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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Frankfurt : Piscataway, NJ :
Ontos Verlag ; [Distributed in] North and South America by Transaction Books,
©2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (137 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9783110319477 3110319470 9783110319132 3110319136 |