04614oam 22007454a 450 99647897190331620220801174452.00-8232-4152-10-8232-6900-01-283-29997-697866132999700-8232-3424-X10.1515/9780823241521(CKB)2550000000054685(PromptCat)40020051823(MH)012981692-2(SSID)ssj0000535863(PQKBManifestationID)11359130(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000535863(PQKBWorkID)10522742(PQKB)11367533(MiAaPQ)EBC3239588(MiAaPQ)EBC5294490(DE-B1597)555098(DE-B1597)9780823241521(OCoLC)760884549(OCoLC)1111392638(MdBmJHUP)muse73526(OCoLC)923763551(ScCtBLL)76b062a3-05c9-4c0d-9b4b-c343e141b301(EXLCZ)99255000000005468520110420d2011 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe Digital ConditionClass and Culture in the Information Network /Rob Wilkie1st ed.New York :Fordham University Press,2011.©2011.1 online resource (ix, 239 p. )Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8232-3423-1 0-8232-3422-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-235) and index.The spirit technological -- Global networks and the materiality of immaterial labor -- Reading and writing in the digital age -- The ideology of the digital me.The acceleration in science, technology, communication, and production that began in the second half of the twentieth century— developments which make up the concept of the “digital”—has brought us to what might be the most contradictory moment in human history. The digital revolution has made it possible not only to imagine but to actually realize a world in which social inequality and poverty are vanquished. But instead these developments have led to an unprecedented level of accumulation of private profits. Rather than the end of social inequality we are witness to its global expansion.Recent cultural theory tends to focus on the intricate surface effects of the emerging digital realities, proposing that technological advances effect greater cultural freedom for all, ignoring the underpinning social context. But beneath the surfaces of digital culture are complex social and historical relations that can be understood only from the perspective of a class analysis which explains why the new realities of the “digital condition" are conditioned by the actualities of global class inequalities. It is no longer the case that "technology" can take on the appearance of a simple or neutral aspect of human society. It is time for a critique of the digital times.In The Digital Condition, Rob Wilkie advances a groundbreaking analysis of digital culture which argues that the digital geist—which has its genealogy in such concepts as the “body without organs,” “spectrality,” and “différance”—has obscured the implications of class difference with the phantom of a digital divide. Engaging the writings of Hardt and Negri, Poster, Deleuze and Guattari, Derrida, Haraway, Latour, and Castells, the literature and cinema of cyberpunk, and digital commodities like the iPod, Wilkie initiates a new direction within the field of digital cultural studies by foregrounding the continuing importance of class in shaping the contemporary.Information superhighwaySocial aspectsComputersSocial aspectsDigital divideInformation technologySocial aspects Information superhighwaySocial aspects.ComputersSocial aspects.Digital divide.Information technologySocial aspects .303.48/33Wilkie Rob(Robert A.)1025242MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK996478971903316The Digital Condition2437513UNISAThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress