03121nam 2200721 a 450 991077973470332120230721010833.03-11-031947-010.1515/9783110319477(CKB)2550000001097043(EBL)1215528(OCoLC)851972074(SSID)ssj0000992298(PQKBManifestationID)11628341(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000992298(PQKBWorkID)10934093(PQKB)11300239(MiAaPQ)EBC1215528(DE-B1597)210501(OCoLC)853255389(DE-B1597)9783110319477(Au-PeEL)EBL1215528(CaPaEBR)ebr10728940(CaONFJC)MIL503577(EXLCZ)99255000000109704320130814d2009 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrDigital cast of being[electronic resource] metaphysics, mathematics, cartesianism, cybernetics, capitalism, communication /Michael EldredFrankfurt Ontos Verlag20091 online resource (140 p.)Description based upon print version of record.3-11-031913-6 1-299-72326-8 Includes bibliographical references. Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- 1. Approaching the question concerning digital being -- 2. Number and being -- 3. Digital beings -- 4. Spatiality of the electromagnetic medium -- 5. Digital technology and capital -- 6. A global communication network? -- 7. Appendix: A demathematizing phenomenological view of quantum mechanical indeterminacy -- BackmatterWe 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 phenomenologically. OntologyMetaphysicsTechnologyPhilosophyCapitalismPhilosophyMathematicsPhilosophyDigital communicationsCommunicationPhilosophyOntology.Metaphysics.TechnologyPhilosophy.CapitalismPhilosophy.MathematicsPhilosophy.Digital communications.CommunicationPhilosophy.111Eldred Michael1499430MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910779734703321Digital cast of being3725445UNINA