LEADER 03031nam 2200493I 450 001 9910818192303321 005 20180216091328.0 010 $a1-78743-961-5 010 $a1-78743-668-3 035 $a(CKB)3840000000340434 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5144928 035 $a(UtOrBLW)9781787436688 035 $a(EXLCZ)993840000000340434 100 $a20180216h20182018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun||||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aDigital materialism $eorigins, philosophies, prospects /$fBaruch Gottlieb 210 1$aBingley, England :$cEmerald Publishing,$d2018. 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a1 online resource (210 pages) $cillustrations 225 0 $aDigital activism and society: politics, economy and culture in network communication 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-78743-669-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 330 $aDigital materiality (digimat) proposes a set of basic principles for how we understand the world through digital processes. Digital instruments may seem forbiddingly complex but they are based on simple mechanical principles which operate today on the subatomic scale, which creates challenges for conventional human epistemology. This short book sets out a methodical materialist understanding of digital technologies, where they come from, how they work, and what they do. This analysis starts from the classical materialism of the Greek physicist-philosophers, engages with the humanist and historical materialism of the flourishing of Enlightenment arts and sciences, and extrapolates from post-humanist new materialism informed by quantum physics. There can be no future without a present and that present is always, persistently material. Readers of this book must grapple with the mattering of digital material, especially the awe-inspiring epistemological schism between the infinitesimal, lightspeed reality of digital data and conventional, empirical human epistemologies which provide the vocabularies and cultural metaphors we must have recourse to in the attempt to discuss, communicate and decypher these phenomena. The obsolescent figure of anthropos (human being) will provide a central foil and subject for this challenge to understand our digital tools and their seemingly irrepressible reproduction. The future of humanity is at stake! 606 $aLanguage Arts & Disciplines, Communication Studies.$2bisacsh 606 $aCommunication studies.$2bicssc 606 $aTechnology$xSocial aspects 606 $aDigital media 615 7$aLanguage Arts & Disciplines, Communication Studies.. 615 7$aCommunication studies.. 615 0$aTechnology$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aDigital media. 676 $a303.483 700 $aGottlieb$b Baruch$f1966-$01654973 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910818192303321 996 $aDigital materialism$94007140 997 $aUNINA