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  • Digital Media and the Making of Network Temporality

    by Philip Pond ...
    This book presents an exciting new theory of time for a world built on hyper-fast digital media networks. Computers have changed the human social experience enormously. We’re becoming familiar with many of the macro changes, but we rarely consider the complex, underlying mechanics of how a technology interacts with our social, political and economic worlds. And we cannot explain how the mechanics ... Read more

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  • Complexity, Digital Media and Post Truth Politics

    A Theory of Interactive Systems

    by Philip Pond ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book analyses the relationship between digital media systems and post truth politics. It demonstrates that the complexity of modern systems is an existential challenge for our ability to understand and research these issues. A new theory is proposed for studying complexity, explaining how system interactionism differs from established ideas, including assemblage and actor network theories. ... Read more

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    by Julian Warner ...
    Series series History and Foundations of Information Science
    An overview of information retrieval rooted in the humanities and social sciences but informed by an understanding of information technology and information theory.Information retrieval in the age of Internet search engines has become part of ordinary discourse and everyday practice: “Google” is a verb in common usage. Thus far, more attention has been given to practical understanding of ... Read more

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  • Embracing Complexity in Design

    Outlining state-of-the-art developments in the area of complexity and design, this book collates them into a unique and authoritative resource for both the design and complex systems communities. The book is based on research which focuses on a variety of different themes and domains, including architecture, engineering, environmental design, art, fashion and management.A ground-breaking ... Read more

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  • The Architecture of Information

    Architecture, Interaction Design and the Patterning of Digital Information

    This book looks at relationships between the organization of physical objects in space and the organization of ideas. Historical, philosophical, psychological and architectural knowledge are united to develop an understanding of the relationship between information and its representation.Despite its potential to break the mould, digital information has relied on metaphors from a pre-digital era. ... Read more

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  • Gilbert Simondon

    Information, Technology and Media

    by Simon Mills ...
    Gilbert Simondon: Information, Technology and Media is a comprehensive introduction to the work of the French philosopher Gilbert Simondon. In particular it examines Simondon's original informational ontology, as developed from a synthesis of Cybernetics, thermodynamics and French epistemology,The book goes on to delineate the role this ontology plays in developing an original account of ... Read more

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  • Problem Spaces

    How and Why Methodology Matters

    by Celia Lury ...
    In this innovative book, Celia Lury argues that the time has come for us to explore the world not only with new methods, but with a new approach to methodology itself. Fundamental changes are taking place in how we produce knowledge, how we communicate it and, indeed, what we consider to be knowledge. These changes demand innovative and creative responses to research questions.Lury's rethinking of ... Read more

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  • Philosophy and Computing

    An Introduction

    Philosophy and Computing explores each of the following areas of technology: the digital revolution; the computer; the Internet and the Web; CD-ROMs and Mulitmedia; databases, textbases, and hypertexts; Artificial Intelligence; the future of computing.Luciano Floridi shows us how the relationship between philosophy and computing provokes a wide range of philosophical questions: is there a ... Read more

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  • Philosophical Engineering

    Toward a Philosophy of the Web

    Series series Metaphilosophy
    This is the first interdisciplinary exploration of the philosophical foundations of the Web, a new area of inquiry that has important implications across a range of domains.Contains twelve essays that bridge the fields of philosophy, cognitive science, and phenomenologyTackles questions such as the impact of Google on intelligence and epistemology, the philosophical status of digital objects, ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Information

    Edited by Luciano Floridi ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy
    Information and communication technology occupies a central place in the modern world, with society becoming increasingly dependent on it every day. It is therefore unsurprising that it has become a growing subject area in contemporary philosophy, which relies heavily on informational concepts. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Information is an outstanding reference source to the key topics ... Read more

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  • An Aesthesia of Networks

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    by Anna Munster ...
    Series series Technologies of Lived Abstraction
    The experience of networks as the immediate sensing of relations between humans and nonhuman technical elements in assemblages such as viral media and databases.Today almost every aspect of life for which data exists can be rendered as a network. Financial data, social networks, biological ecologies: all are visualized in links and nodes, lines connecting dots. A network visualization of a ... Read more

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  • Getting Darwin Wrong

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    Brendan Wallace, with a background in psychology, demonstrates that the key claims of Evolutionary Psychology (EP), popularised by Steven Pinker and others, are based on the 'brain is a digital computer' argument. He then argues that as we now know this model of the brain will not work, therefore EP won't work either, since it is based on a fallacious view of the mind/brain.The book, which is ... Read more

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